1960 in science

List of years in science (table)

The year 1960 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

  • August 11 – The return capsule of the U.S. Discoverer 13 Corona mission is successfully recovered from the Pacific Ocean, the first time any man-made object has been recovered successfully from orbit.[1]
  • September – A Soviet SS-2 Sibling missile is successfully launched in a suborbital test from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the first Chinese spaceflight.
  • October 4 – The U.S. Army Courier 1B, the world's first active communications repeater satellite, is launched into low earth orbit.

Biology

Computer science

Earth sciences

Exploration

Mathematics

Medicine

Meteorology

Metrology

Paleontology

Physics

Psychology

Technology

Awards

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "Discoverer 13". NASA. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
  2. ^ Perutz, M. F.; et al. (13 February 1960). "Structure of Hæmoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 5.5-Å. Resolution, Obtained by X-Ray Analysis". Nature. 185 (4711): 416–22. Bibcode:1960Natur.185..416P. doi:10.1038/185416a0. PMID 18990801.
  3. ^ Kendrew, J. C.; et al. (13 February 1960). "Structure of Myoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 2 Å. Resolution". Nature. 185 (4711): 422–7. Bibcode:1960Natur.185..422K. doi:10.1038/185422a0. PMID 18990802.
  4. ^ Hardy, Alister (1960-03-17). "Was man more aquatic in the past?" (PDF). New Scientist. 7: 642–645. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2013-03-05.. More legible PDF at Elaine Morgan's The Aquatic Ape Theory website Archived 2012-03-01 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ Woodward, R. B.; et al. (1960). "The Total Synthesis of Chlorophyll". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 82 (14): 3800–3802. doi:10.1021/ja01499a093.
  6. ^ "Na cenu čekal vědec do 83 let. V USA bych byl multimilionář, směje se". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). 2014-03-04. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
  7. ^ Hurwitz, Jerard (December 2005). "The Discovery of RNA Polymerase". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280 (52): 42477–85. doi:10.1074/jbc.X500006200. PMID 16230341.
  8. ^ "Climatron Conservatory – History and Architecture". Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
  9. ^ Kruseman Aretz, F.E.J. (2003-06-30). "The Dijkstra-Zonneveld ALGOL 60 compiler for the Electrologica X1" (PDF). Software Engineering. History of Computer Science. Amsterdam: Centrum Wiskunde; Informatica.
  10. ^ Daylight, E. G. (2011). "Dijkstra's Rallying Cry for Generalization: the Advent of the Recursive Procedure, late 1950s–early 1960s". The Computer Journal. 54 (11): 1756–1772. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.366.3916. doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxr002.
  11. ^ McCarthy, John (1960). "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine". Communications of the ACM. 3 (4): 184–195. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.422.5235. doi:10.1145/367177.367199.
  12. ^ Hess, H. H. (1960), Evolution of Ocean Basins, Report to Office of Naval Research. Contract No. 1858(10), NR 081-06
  13. ^ Hess, H. H. (1962-11-01). "History of Ocean Basins" (PDF). In Engel, A. E. J.; James, Harold L.; Leonard, B. F. (eds.). Petrologic Studies: a volume in honor of A. F. Buddington. Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America. pp. 599–620.
  14. ^ Bilinski, S. (1960), "Über die Rhombenisoeder", Glasnik Mat. Fiz. Astr., 15: 251–263, Zbl 0099.15506.
  15. ^ Suzuki, Michio (1960). "A new type of simple groups of finite order". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 46 (6): 868–870. Bibcode:1960PNAS...46..868S. doi:10.1073/pnas.46.6.868. ISSN 0027-8424. JSTOR 70960. MR 0120283. PMC 222949. PMID 16590684.
  16. ^ Ree, Rimhak (1960). "A family of simple groups associated with the simple Lie algebra of type (G2)". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 66 (6): 508–510. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1960-10523-X. ISSN 0002-9904. MR 0125155. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  17. ^ Feit, Walter; Thompson, John G.; Hall, Marshall, Jr. (1960). "Finite groups in which the centralizer of any non-identity element is nilpotent". Mathematische Zeitschrift. 74: 1–17. doi:10.1007/BF01180468. MR 0114856.
  18. ^ Adam, John (1999-02-05). "Making Hearts Beat". InnovativeLives. Lemelson Center. Archived from the original on 2008-04-21. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  19. ^ Dee, R. (2003). "Who Assisted Whom?". Texas Heart Institute Journal. 30 (1): 90. PMC 152850. PMID 12638685.
  20. ^ Haller, J. D.; Olearchyk, A. S. (2002). "Cardiology's 10 Greatest Discoveries". Texas Heart Institute Journal. 29 (4): 342–4. PMC 140304. PMID 12484626.
  21. ^ "Smoking is Linked to Heart Disease". The New York Times. June 7, 1960. p. 36.
  22. ^ "History of Kidney Transplantation in Edinburgh". EdREN. Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. 2001. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
  23. ^ International Bureau of Weights and Measures (2006). Le Système international d'unités (SI) – The International System of Units (SI) (PDF) (8th ed.). p. 110. ISBN 978-92-822-2213-3.
  24. ^ 11th CGPM (1960): Resolution 12.
  25. ^ Leakey, Richard E. (1981). The Making of Mankind. Elsevier-Dutton Publishing Co., Inc. pp. 65–66. ISBN 978-0-525-15055-8.
  26. ^ Gough, H. G. (1960). "The Adjective Check List as a personalty assessment research technique". Psychological Reports 6:107-122.
  27. ^ U.S. Patent 3,243,634.Bellis, Mary. "History of Lighting and Lamps". About.com. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
  28. ^ At Photokina.

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