1964 in science
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The year 1964 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] 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.
- July 31 - Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the Moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from Earth-bound telescopes).
- 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 suits.
[edit] Computer science
- April 7 - IBM announces the System/360, in six models with 32-bit architecture.
- May 1 - John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first program created in BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language that will eventually be included on many computers and even some games consoles.
- PL/I (Programming Language I), a block-structured computer language, is created by George Radin, while at IBM.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- December 1 - J. B. S. Haldane (b. 1892), British geneticist.
- December 17 - Victor Franz Hess (b. 1883), American physicist.fr:1964 en science
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