1997 in science
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The year 1997 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy and space exploration
- January 17 - Explosion of a Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS payload shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
- February 13 - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- March 8 - Total solar eclipse
- March 24 - partial lunar eclipse
- July 4 - Mars Pathfinder lands on the surface of Mars
- August 25 - Launch of Explorer 71 of the Explorer program of spacecraft
- September 2 - Partial solar eclipse
- September - Total lunar eclipse
- October 30 - First successful test flight of the ESA's Ariane 5 expendable launch system
[edit] Aviation
- September 7 - First test flight of the f26
[edit] Biology
- February 22 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned and was born in July 1996
- March 4 - United States President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning
- April 25 - Scientists announce that Human artificial chromosomes have been created.
- July 10 - In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago
- November 19 - In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive, and the first in which all survived infancy.
[edit] Computer science
- May 11 - IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov, the first time a computer defeated a chess grand master in a match. Deep Blue had defeated Kasparov before, but had never won a match against him.
[edit] Geology
- May 10 - An earthquake near Ardekul in northeastern Iran kills at least 2,400.
[edit] Medicine
- Food and Drug Administration approval of daclizumab, the first humanized antibody therapeutic.[1]
[edit] Paleontology
- Megalosaurus and Cetiosaurus footprints are identified at Ardley, Oxfordshire, England, by Christopher Jackson.
[edit] Technology
- October 15 - The first supersonic land speed record is set by the ThrustSSC team from the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Births
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[edit] Deaths
- January 17 – Clyde Tombaugh (b. 1906), astronomer, discoveror of Pluto.
- April 7 – Georgi Shonin (b. 1935), cosmonaut.
- May 2 – John Carew Eccles (b. 1903), psychologist.
- July 4 – J. Z. Young (b. 1907), zoologist and neurophysiologist.
- August 4 – Jeanne Calment (b. 1875), oldest person in confirmed history.
- August 23 – Sir John Kendrew (b. 1917), molecular biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- August 24 – Louis Essen (b. 1908), physicist, co-developer of the first practical atomic clock.
- September 4 – Hans Eysenck (b. 1916), psychologist.
- December 17 – R. V. Jones (b. 1911), physicist, expert in electronic military defence.
- December 26 - Cahit Arf (b. 1910), mathematician.
[edit] References
- ^ Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). "Immunotherapy: past, present and future" (PDF). Nature Medicine 9 (3): 269–277. doi:10.1038/nm0303-269. PMID 12612576. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v9/n3/full/nm0303-269.html&filetype=pdf.
