1967 in science

The year 1967 in science and technology 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 the Outer Space Treaty.
*April 20 - Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
*April 24 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed during the landing of Soyuz 1.
*October 19 - Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
*November 9 - Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
*November - Pulsars discovered by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. These are rapidly pulsating radio sources and the discovery was good for a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974 (Hewish A.S. " et al. 1968, Nature 217", 709-713). A year later pulsars are explained as rotating neutron stars.
*NRAO builds the 36-foot Radio Telescope, later to become the ARO 12m Radio Telescope

Awards

* Nobel Prizes
** 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), Polish biochemist, coined the term vitamin.
* 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 on Soyuz 1.