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Overview of the events of 1971 in science
The year 1971 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
Biology
Computer science
July 4 –
Michael S. Hart posts the first
e-book , a copy of the
United States Declaration of Independence , on the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 's
mainframe computer , the origin of
Project Gutenberg .
[4]
November 3 – The
Unix Programmer's Manual is published.
November 15 –
Intel release the world's first
microprocessor , the
4004 .
November/December –
Computer Space is released, the first
arcade video game .
Ray Tomlinson sends the first
ARPAnet
e-mail between host computers, at
BBN ,
Cambridge, Massachusetts , with the first use of the
@ sign in an address.
[5]
Kenbak-1 goes on sale, considered to be the world's first
personal computer by the
Computer History Museum and the
American Computer Museum .
The earliest
floppy disks , 8 inches in diameter, become commercially available as components of products shipped by
IBM , their inventor.
Conservation
Earth sciences
Mathematics
Medicine
Physics
Psychology
Technology
Institutions
Awards
Births
Deaths
References
^ Howarth, Francis G. (1972-01-21). "Cavernicoles in Lava Tubes on the Island of Hawaii".
Science . 175 (4019): 325–326.
Bibcode :
1972Sci...175..325H .
doi :
10.1126/science.175.4019.325 .
JSTOR
1733505 .
PMID
17814543 .
S2CID
36219772 .
^ O'Keefe, John; Dostrovsky, Jonathan (1971). "The hippocampus as a spatial map: preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat".
Brain Research . 34 (1): 171–175.
doi :
10.1016/0006-8993(71)90358-1 .
PMID
5124915 .
^ Binder, Marc D (2009).
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Springer. p.
3166 .
ISBN
978-3-540-23735-8 .
^ Hart, Michael (August 1992).
"The History and Philosophy of Project Gutenberg" . Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 2011-10-05 . .
^ Tomlinson, Ray.
"The First Network Email" . Archived from
the original on 2006-05-06. Retrieved 2011-10-05 .
^ Cook, Stephen (1971).
"The complexity of theorem proving procedures" . Proceedings of the Third Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing . pp. 151–158.
doi :
10.1145/800157.805047 .
ISBN
9781450374644 .
S2CID
7573663 .
^ Quillen, Daniel (1971).
"The Adams Conjecture" .
Topology . 10 : 67–80.
doi :
10.1016/0040-9383(71)90018-8 .
ISSN
0040-9383 .
MR
0279804 .
^
Takiff, S. J. (1971).
"Rings of invariant polynomials for a class of Lie algebras" .
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society . 160 : 249–262.
doi :
10.2307/1995803 .
ISSN
0002-9947 .
JSTOR
1995803 .
MR
0281839 .
^ Beckmann, E. C. (2006). "CT scanning: the early days". British Journal of Radiology . 79 (937): 5–8.
doi :
10.1259/bjr/29444122 .
PMID
16421398 .
^ Bywaters, E. G. L. (March 1971).
"Still's disease in the adult" .
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases . 30 (2): 121–33.
doi :
10.1136/ard.30.2.121 .
PMC
1005739 .
PMID
5315135 .
^
"Americas region is declared the world's first to eliminate rubella" . WHO. 2015-04-30. Archived from
the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-04-30 .
^ Penrose, R.; Floyd, R. M. (1971). "Extraction of Rotational Energy from a Black Hole". Nature Physical Science . 229 (6): 177.
Bibcode :
1971NPhS..229..177P .
doi :
10.1038/physci229177a0 .