1967 In Science
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The year 1967 in
science
and
technology
included many events, some of which are listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
January 27
-
Apollo 1
destroyed in a fire on the launch pad.
January 27
-
USA
,
Soviet Union
and
UK
sign the
Outer Space Treaty
.
April 20
-
Surveyor 3
probe
lands on the
Moon
.
April 24
-
Soviet
cosmonaut
Vladimir Komarov
is killed during the landing of
Soyuz 1
.
October 19
-
Mariner 5
probe flies by
Venus
.
November 9
-
Apollo program
:
NASA
launches a
Saturn V
rocket carrying the unmanned
Apollo 4
test spacecraft from
Cape Kennedy
.
November
-
Pulsars
discovered by
Jocelyn Bell
and
Antony Hewish
. These are rapidly pulsating radio sources and the discovery was good for a
Nobel Prize in Physics
in 1974 (Hewish A.S.
et al. 1968, Nature 217
, 709-713). A year later pulsars are explained as rotating
neutron stars
.
Awards
Nobel Prizes
Physics
-
Hans Bethe
Chemistry
-
Manfred Eigen
,
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
,
George Porter
Medicine
-
Ragnar Granit
,
Haldan Keffer Hartline
,
George Wald
Turing Award
-
Maurice Vincent Wilkes
Births
Deaths
January 27
-
Apollo 1
crew
Edward White
(b.
1930
)
Gus Grissom
(b.
1926
)
Roger Chaffee
(b.
1935
)
February 18
-
J. Robert Oppenheimer
(b.
1904
),
physicist
April 5
-
Hermann Joseph Muller
(b.
1890
),
geneticist
.
April 24
-
Vladimir Komarov
(b.
1927
),
cosmonaut
on
Soyuz 1
.
January 19
-
Casimir Funk
(b.
1884
),
Polish
biochemist
, coined the term
vitamin
.
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