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The year 1967 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are 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 .

launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy .

November - Pulsar s 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 Star s.

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- 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

April 5 - Hermann Joseph Muller (b. 1890 ), Geneticist .

April 24 - Vladimir Komarov (b. 1927 ), Cosmonaut on Soyuz 1 .