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The year 1972 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

January 5 - President Of The United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.

February 4 - Mariner 9 sends pictures from Mars

February 21 - The Soviet unmanned Spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon .

March 2 - Launch of Pioneer 10 spacecraft.

April 16 - Apollo 16 launched

July 23 - The United States launches Landsat 1 , first Earth-resources Satellite .

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Cray Research founded

TECHNOLOGY

February 1 - First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced (price $395)

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - John Bardeen , Leon Neil Cooper , John Robert Schrieffer

--- Chemistry - Christian B. Anfinsen , Stanford Moore , William H. Stein

--- Medicine - Gerald Edelman , Rodney R Porter

Turing Award - Edsger Dijkstra

BIRTHS

DEATHS

October 1 - Louis Leakey (d. 1903 In Science ), British Paleontologist .