1967 in science
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The year 1967 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] 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.
- November 9 - Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
- November - Pulsars 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 stars.
- NRAO builds the 36-foot Radio Telescope, later to become the ARO 12m Radio Telescope
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- 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
- March 27 - Jaroslav Heyrovský (b. 1890), chemist
- April 5 - Hermann Joseph Muller (b. 1890), geneticist.
- April 24 - Vladimir Komarov (b. 1927), cosmonaut on Soyuz 1.fr:1967 en science
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