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The year 1970 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
- February 11 – Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit.
- March 31 – Explorer I reentry (after 12 years in orbit)
- April 11 – Apollo 13 ill-fated space mission launched
- April 17 – Apollo 13 returns safely to Earth
- August 17 – Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet.
- November 17 – Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
Biology
- August – Release in the United States of the album Songs of the Humpback Whale produced by Roger Payne, publicly demonstrating whale vocalization for the first time. It becomes an unexpected bestseller and influential in public support for whale conservation.[1][2][3][4]
- Establishment of Parc naturel régional de Camargue in the south of France.
Chemistry
- August – Ulrich K. Laemmli publishes his refinement of the SDS-PAGE method.[5]
Computer science
- January 1 – Unix time begins at 00:00:00 UTC.
- June–August – FLOW (programming language) devised by Jef Raskin.
- November 17 – Douglas Engelbart receives a United States patent for the first computer mouse.[6]
- Datapoint 2200 is announced. A mass-produced programmable terminal, designed by Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC) founders Phil Ray and Gus Roche.
- Len Deighton's 1943-set Bomber, published this year in England, is the first novel written on a word processor, the IBM MT/ST.[7]
- Niklaus Wirth releases the first Pascal compiler.[8]
- Xerox PARC computer laboratory opens in Palo Alto, California.
Earth sciences
- January 4 – The 7.1 Mw Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 14,621 are killed and 26,783 injured.
- May 24 – Kola Superdeep Borehole drilling begins on the Kola Peninsula of Russia.
Mathematics
- Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton devised by John Horton Conway.[9]
- Mathematician Kurt Gödel allows circulation of his ontological proof of the existence of God.[10]
Medicine
- The Dubowitz Score for estimating the gestational age of babies is published by Lilly and Victor Dubowitz.[11]
- The Exeter hip replacement stem, developed by surgeon Robin Ling and engineer Clive Lee, is first implanted, at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter, England.[12]
- First cases of monkeypox in humans identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[13]
Physics
- Prediction of the GIM mechanism, requiring the existence of a charm quark, by Sheldon Glashow, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani.[14]
Psychology
- Henri Tajfel develops his minimal group paradigm, a constituent of social identity theory.
- Studies in Animal and Human Behavior, Volume I is published by Konrad Lorenz.
Technology
- June 2 – Cleddau Bridge in Wales collapses during erection, killing four, leading to introduction of new standards for box girder bridges in the United Kingdom.[15][16]
Events
- June 19 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed into international law, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.
Awards
Births
- March 27 – Eleanor Maguire, Irish-born neuropsychologist.
- August 1 – Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician.
- September 3 – Stanislav Smirnov, Russian-born mathematician.
Deaths
- January 5 – Max Born (b. 1882), German physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954.[17]
- January 27 – Marietta Blau (b. 1894), Austrian physicist.[18]
- April 27 – Orii Hyōjirō (b. 1883), Japanese animal specimen collector.
- May 1 – Ralph Hartley (b. 1888), American electrical engineer.
- July 20 – Margaret Reed Lewis (b. 1881), American cell biologist.
- July 29 – Emanuel Miller (b. 1892), British child psychiatrist.
- August 1 – Otto Heinrich Warburg (b. 1883), German physiologist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[19]
- September 22 – Vojtěch Jarník (b. 1897), Czech mathematician.
References
- ↑ McLellan, Joseph (1977-12-26). "It's a Whale of a Song". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ Andersen, Kurt. "How Pop Music Helped Save the Whales". Studio 360. Archived from the original on 2015-01-10. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
- ↑ Rothenberg, David. "Nature's greatest hit: The old and new songs of the humpback whale". The Wire.
- ↑ Lewis, Tim (2020-12-06). "'It always hits me hard': how a haunting album helped save the whales". The Observer. London – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ Laemmli, U. K. (1970). "Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4". Nature. 227 (5259): 680–685. Bibcode:1970Natur.227..680L. doi:10.1038/227680a0. PMID 5432063. S2CID 3105149.
- ↑ U.S. Patent 3,541,541.
- ↑ Kirschenbaum, Matthew (2013-03-01). "The Book-Writing Machine: What was the first novel ever written on a word processor?". Slate. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
- ↑ Wirth, Niklaus (2000). "The Development of Procedural Programming Languages Personal Contributions and Perspectives". Modular Programming Languages. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1897. pp. 1–10. doi:10.1007/10722581_1. ISBN 978-3-540-67958-5.
- ↑ Gardner, Martin (October 1970). Mathematical Games – The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "life". Vol. 223. pp. 120–123. ISBN 0-89454-001-7. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ↑ Dawson, John W. Jr. (1997). Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Godel. Wellesley, Mass.: A. K. Peters Ltd. ISBN 1-56881-025-3.
- ↑ Mercuri, Eugenio (2016-05-08). "Lilly Dubowitz obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
- ↑ Timperley, A. John (2017-10-20). "Robin Ling obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
- ↑ "Monkeypox". CDC. 2015-05-11. Archived from the original on 2017-10-15. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
- ↑ Glashow, S. L.; Iliopoulos, J.; Maiani, L. (1970). "Weak Interactions with Lepton–Hadron Symmetry". Physical Review D. 2 (7): 1285–1292. Bibcode:1970PhRvD...2.1285G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.2.1285. Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
- ↑ Department of the Environment (Merrison Committee of Inquiry) (1973). Inquiry into the Basis of Design and Method of Erection of Steel Box Girder Bridges. London: HMSO.
- ↑ "How safe are our bridges?". BBC News Online. BBC. 2007-08-03. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ↑ "Nobel prize winner dies". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (Pennsylvania, U.S.). Associated Press. 6 January 1970. p. 26.
- ↑ Halpen, Leopold E. (1997). "Marietta Blau". In Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey (eds.). A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-77351-642-7.
- ↑ Roswitha Schmid; Hans Adolf Krebs (1981). Otto Warburg: Cell Physiologist, Biochemist, and Eccentric. Clarendon Press. p. v.
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