November 30

Seung Sahn, the Korean Son master who founded the international Kwan Um School of Zen, died on this day in 2004.

A study in Nature decoded the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek geared device that modelled the motions of the Sun, Moon, and calendar.

Fatema Mernissi, the Moroccan sociologist and pioneering scholar of women in Muslim society, died in Rabat in 2015.

Jagadish Chandra Bose, who pioneered microwave radio research and the study of electrical responses in plants, was born in eastern Bengal.