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The year 1964 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

March 20 - The precursor of the European Space Agency , ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14 , 1962 .

sends back the first close-up photographs of the Moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from Earth-bound Telescope s).

October 12 - The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth Orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without Space Suit s.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

April 7 - IBM announces the System/360 .

John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz create BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level Programming Language that has been included on many Computer s and even some games consoles.

Medicine

January 11 - U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous for one's health in the first such statement from U.S. Federal Government .

Jerome Horowitz synthesizes AZT , an Antiviral Drug that would come to be used in treating HIV .

Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome is first described, by Dr. Michael Lesch and Dr. William Nyhan.

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Charles Hard Townes , Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov , Aleksandr Prokhorov

--- Chemistry - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

--- Medicine - Konrad Bloch , Feodor Lynen

BIRTHS

August 25 - Maxim Kontsevich , Russia n Mathematician .

DEATHS

December 1 - J. B. S. Haldane (b. 1892 ), British Geneticist .

December 17 - Victor Franz Hess (b. 1883 ), American Physicist .