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The year 1962 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

January 26 - Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon . The Space Probe later missed the Moon by 22,000 miles.

February 2 - For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto align.

, John Glenn orbits the Earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes becoming the first American to orbit the Earth.

April 26 - The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon .

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Lev Davidovich Landau

--- Chemistry - Max Ferdinand Perutz , John Cowdery Kendrew

--- Medicine - Francis Harry Compton Crick , James Dewey Watson , Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

DEATHS

February 19 - Georgios Papanikolaou (b. 1883 ), Inventor of the Pap Smear .

March 24 - Auguste Piccard (b. 1884 ), Physicist and Explorer .

November 18 - Niels Bohr (b. 1885 ), Danish Physicist .

December 20 - Emil Artin (b. 1898 ), Mathematician .

December 24 - Wilhelm Ackermann (b. 1896 ), Mathematician .