1970 in science

The year 1970 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

* February 11 - Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit.
* March 31 - Explorer I reentry (after 12 years in orbit)
* April 11 - Apollo 13 ill-fated space mission launched
* April 17 - Apollo 13 returns safely to earth
* August 17 - Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet.
* November 17 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.

Computer science

* January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.

Psychology

*"Studies in Animal and Human Behavior, Volume I" is published by Konrad Lorenz.

Awards

*Fields Prize in Mathematics: Alan Baker, Heisuke Hironaka, Sergei Petrovich Novikov and John Griggs Thompson
* Nobel Prizes
** Physics - Hannes Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel
** Chemistry - Luis F. Leloir
** Medicine - Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
* Turing Award - James H. Wilkinson

Births

Deaths

* January 5 - Max Born (b. 1882), physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954.
* August 1 - Otto Heinrich Warburg (b. 1883), German physiologist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.