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Overview of the events of 1960 in science
The year 1960 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
Biology
Computer science
Earth sciences
Exploration
Mathematics
Medicine
Meteorology
Metrology
Paleontology
Physics
Psychology
Technology
Awards
Births
Deaths
January 21 –
Wu Lien-teh (born
1879 ), Malayan Chinese
physician .
March 27 –
Gregorio Marañón (born
1879 ), Spanish physician, scientist, historian and philosopher.
April 24 –
Max von Laue (born
1879 ),
German
physicist , winner of the 1914
Nobel Prize in Physics .
May 8 –
J. H. C. Whitehead (born
1904 ), British mathematician.
June 17 – Sir
Harold Gillies (born
1882 ),
New Zealand -born
plastic surgeon .
August 10 –
Oswald Veblen (born
1880 ), American mathematician, geometer and topologist.
September 22 –
Melanie Klein (born 1882), Austrian-British
psychoanalyst .
December 8 –
Ross T. McIntire (born
1889 ), American naval surgeon.
References
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"Science: Project Ozma" . Time . Archived from
the original on 11 September 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2022 .
^
"Transit 1B - NSSDC ID: 1960-003B" . NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive.
^
"Discoverer 13" . NASA. Retrieved 2015-11-06 .
^ Perutz, M. F.; et al. (13 February 1960). "Structure of Hæmoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 5.5-Å. Resolution, Obtained by X-Ray Analysis".
Nature . 185 (4711): 416–22.
Bibcode :
1960Natur.185..416P .
doi :
10.1038/185416a0 .
PMID
18990801 .
S2CID
4208282 .
^ Kendrew, J. C.; et al. (13 February 1960). "Structure of Myoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 2 Å. Resolution". Nature . 185 (4711): 422–7.
Bibcode :
1960Natur.185..422K .
doi :
10.1038/185422a0 .
PMID
18990802 .
S2CID
4167651 .
^ Hardy, Alister (1960-03-17).
"Was man more aquatic in the past?" (PDF) .
New Scientist . 7 : 642–645. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2013-03-05 . . More legible PDF at
Elaine Morgan's The Aquatic Ape Theory website
Archived 2012-03-01 at the
Wayback Machine .
^ Hill, R.; Bendall, F. (1960). "Function of the Two Cytochrome Components in Chloroplasts: A Working Hypothesis". Nature . 186 (4719): 136–137.
Bibcode :
1960Natur.186..136H .
doi :
10.1038/186136a0 .
S2CID
4225589 .
^ Woodward, R. B.; et al. (1960). "The Total Synthesis of Chlorophyll".
Journal of the American Chemical Society . 82 (14): 3800–3802.
doi :
10.1021/ja01499a093 .
^
"Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary site" . Archived from
the original on 2010-10-17. Retrieved 2010-04-11 .
^
"Na cenu čekal vědec do 83 let. V USA bych byl multimilionář, směje se" .
Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). 2014-03-04. Retrieved 2018-11-04 .
^ Hurwitz, Jerard (December 2005).
"The Discovery of RNA Polymerase" . Journal of Biological Chemistry . 280 (52): 42477–85.
doi :
10.1074/jbc.X500006200 .
PMID
16230341 .
^
"Climatron Conservatory – History and Architecture" . Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2011-08-17 .
^ Kruseman Aretz, F.E.J. (2003-06-30).
"The Dijkstra-Zonneveld ALGOL 60 compiler for the Electrologica X1" (PDF) . Software Engineering . History of Computer Science. Amsterdam: Centrum Wiskunde; Informatica. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-19 .
^ Daylight, E. G. (2011).
"Dijkstra's Rallying Cry for Generalization: the Advent of the Recursive Procedure, late 1950s–early 1960s" .
The Computer Journal . 54 (11): 1756–1772.
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.366.3916 .
doi :
10.1093/comjnl/bxr002 .
^ McCarthy, John (1960). "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine".
Communications of the ACM . 3 (4): 184–195.
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.422.5235 .
doi :
10.1145/367177.367199 .
S2CID
1489409 .
^ Hess, H. H. (1960), Evolution of Ocean Basins , Report to
Office of Naval Research . Contract No. 1858(10), NR 081-06
^ Hess, H. H. (1962-11-01).
"History of Ocean Basins" (PDF) . In Engel, A. E. J.; James, Harold L.; Leonard, B. F. (eds.). Petrologic Studies: a volume in honor of A. F. Buddington . Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America. pp. 599–620.
^ Bilinski, S. (1960), "Über die Rhombenisoeder", Glasnik Mat. Fiz. Astr. , 15 : 251–263,
Zbl
0099.15506 .
^ Suzuki, Michio (1960).
"A new type of simple groups of finite order" .
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 46 (6): 868–870.
Bibcode :
1960PNAS...46..868S .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.46.6.868 .
ISSN
0027-8424 .
JSTOR
70960 .
MR
0120283 .
PMC
222949 .
PMID
16590684 .
^ Ree, Rimhak (1960).
"A family of simple groups associated with the simple Lie algebra of type (G2 )" .
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . 66 (6): 508–510.
doi :
10.1090/S0002-9904-1960-10523-X .
ISSN
0002-9904 .
MR
0125155 . Retrieved 9 October 2011 .
^ Feit, Walter; Thompson, John G.; Hall, Marshall Jr. (1960). "Finite groups in which the centralizer of any non-identity element is nilpotent".
Mathematische Zeitschrift . 74 : 1–17.
doi :
10.1007/BF01180468 .
MR
0114856 .
S2CID
120550114 .
^ Adam, John (1999-02-05).
"Making Hearts Beat" . InnovativeLives . Lemelson Center. Archived from
the original on 2008-04-21. Retrieved 2011-09-29 .
^ Dee, R. (2003).
"Who Assisted Whom?" . Texas Heart Institute Journal . 30 (1): 90.
PMC
152850 .
PMID
12638685 .
^ Haller, J. D.; Olearchyk, A. S. (2002).
"Cardiology's 10 Greatest Discoveries" . Texas Heart Institute Journal . 29 (4): 342–4.
PMC
140304 .
PMID
12484626 .
^ "Smoking is Linked to Heart Disease".
The New York Times . June 7, 1960. p. 36.
^ Bakalar, N. (2010-10-05).
"First mention: Measles vaccine, 1960" . The New York Times . p. D2.
^ Beautysays (2009-09-27).
"David Morley - a career of service that started in Nigeria" . Nigeria Health Watch . Retrieved 2022-04-29 .
^
"History of Kidney Transplantation in Edinburgh" . EdREN . Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. 2001. Archived from
the original on 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2013-12-02 .
^
International Bureau of Weights and Measures (2006).
Le Système international d'unités (SI) – The International System of Units (SI) (PDF) (8th ed.). Bureau International des Poids et Mesures. p. 110.
ISBN
978-92-822-2213-3 .
^
11th CGPM (1960): Resolution 12.
^
Leakey, Richard E. (1981).
The Making of Mankind . Elsevier-Dutton Publishing Co., Inc. pp.
65–66 .
ISBN
978-0-525-15055-8 .
^ Gough, H. G. (1960). "The Adjective Check List as a personality assessment research technique".
Psychological Reports 6 :107-122.
^ U.S. Patent 3,243,634.Bellis, Mary.
"History of Lighting and Lamps" . About.com . Archived from
the original on July 15, 2012. Retrieved 2011-12-19 .
^ At
Photokina .