- 1967 in science
The year 1967 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, 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 theOuter Space Treaty .
*April 20 -Surveyor 3 probe lands on theMoon .
*April 24 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed during the landing ofSoyuz 1 .
*October 19 -Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
*November 9 -Apollo program :NASA launches aSaturn V rocket carrying the unmannedApollo 4 test spacecraft fromCape Kennedy .
*November -Pulsar s discovered by Jocelyn Bell andAntony Hewish . These are rapidly pulsating radio sources and the discovery was good for aNobel Prize in Physics in 1974 (Hewish A.S. " et al. 1968, Nature 217", 709-713). A year later pulsars are explained as rotatingneutron star s.
*NRAO builds the 36-foot Radio Telescope, later to become theARO 12m Radio Telescope Awards
*
Nobel Prize s
** 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 19 -Casimir Funk (b. 1884), Polishbiochemist , coined the termvitamin .
*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
*March 27 -Jaroslav Heyrovský (b. 1890),chemist
*April 5 -Hermann Joseph Muller (b. 1890),geneticist .
*April 24 - Vladimir Komarov (b. 1927), cosmonaut onSoyuz 1 .
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.