1970 in science
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The year 1970 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Computer science
- January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.
[edit] Mathematics
- Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton devised by John Horton Conway.[1]
- Mathematician Kurt Gödel allows circulation of his ontological proof of the existence of God.[2]
[edit] Physics
- Prediction of the GIM mechanism, requiring the existence of a charm quark, by Sheldon Glashow, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani.[3]
[edit] Psychology
- Henri Tajfel develops his minimal group paradigm, a constituent of social identity theory.
- Studies in Animal and Human Behavior, Volume I is published by Konrad Lorenz.
[edit] Awards
- Fields Prize in Mathematics: Alan Baker, Heisuke Hironaka, Sergei Novikov and John Griggs Thompson
- Nobel Prizes
- Turing Award - James H. Wilkinson
[edit] Births
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[edit] 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.
[edit] References
- ^ Gardner, Martin (October 1970). Mathematical Games - The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "life". 223. pp. 120–123. ISBN 0894540017. Archived from the original on 2009-06-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20090603015231/http://ddi.cs.uni-potsdam.de/HyFISCH/Produzieren/lis_projekt/proj_gamelife/ConwayScientificAmerican.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ Dawson, John W., Jr (1997). Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Godel. Wellesley, Mass.: A. K. Peters Ltd. ISBN 1-56881-025-3.
- ^ Glashow, S. L.; Iliopoulos, J.; Maiani, L. (1970). "Weak Interactions with Lepton–Hadron Symmetry". Physical Review D 2 (7): 1285–1292. Bibcode 1970PhRvD...2.1285G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.2.1285. http://prd.aps.org/pdf/PRD/v2/i7/p1285_1.
