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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
.