1957 in science
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The year 1957 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy and space exploration
- October 4 - Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite
- November 3 - Launch of Sputnik 2, with a dog called Laika on board, the first living thing sent into space.
- December 6 - US attempted launch of Vanguard TV3 which fails after just two seconds in the air.
- Project Orion begins, a U.S. program to build a spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions.
[edit] Biology
- Structure of myoglobin determined by x-ray crystallography
[edit] Computer science
- April - IBM delivers the first compiler for the FORTRAN scientific programming language. It becomes the most widely used computer language for technical work.
- Robert C. Prim independently rediscovers Prim's algorithm. It was first discovered in 1930 by Vojtěch Jarník and independently rediscovered again by Edsger Dijkstra in 1959.
[edit] Exploration
- Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station established
[edit] Physics
- BCS theory of superconductivity developed by John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- July 12 - Rick D. Husband (d. 2003), American astronaut.
[edit] Deaths
- February 8 - John von Neumann (b. 1903), mathematician.
- February 18 - Henry Norris Russell (b. 1877), astronomer.
- May 7 - Wilhelm Filchner (b. 1877), explorer.
- August 21 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (b. 1888), meteorologist and oceanographer.
