1960 in science

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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

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References

  1. "Radio telescope makes space history". On This Day. BBC. 1960-03-14. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-11.
  2. Dyson, Freeman J. (3 June 1960). "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation". Science 131 (3414): 1667–1668. Bibcode:1960Sci...131.1667D. doi:10.1126/science.131.3414.1667. PMID 17780673.
  3. "Echo 1, 1A, 2 Quicklook". Mission and Spacecraft Library. NASA. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
  4. 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" (PDF). Nature 185 (4711): 416–22. Bibcode:1960Natur.185..416P. doi:10.1038/185416a0. PMID 18990801. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
  5. Kendrew, J. C. et al. (13 February 1960). "Structure of Myoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 2 Å. Resolution" (PDF). Nature 185 (4711): 422–7. Bibcode:1960Natur.185..422K. doi:10.1038/185422a0. PMID 18990802. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
  6. 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.
  7. Woodward, R. B. et al. (1960). "The Total Synthesis of Chlorophyll" (PDF). Journal of the American Chemical Society 82: 3800–3802. doi:10.1021/ja01499a093. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
  8. Hurwitz, Jerard (December 2005). "The Discovery of RNA Polymerase" (PDF). Journal of Biological Chemistry 280 (52): 42477–85. doi:10.1074/jbc.X500006200. PMID 16230341. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
  9. "Climatron Conservatory – History and Architecture". Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
  10. Kruseman Aretz, F.E.J. (2003-06-30). "The Dijkstra-Zonneveld ALGOL 60 compiler for the Electrologica X1". Software Engineering (PDF). History of Computer Science. Amsterdam: Centrum Wiskunde; Informatica.
  11. Daylight, E. G. (2011). "Dijkstra's Rallying Cry for Generalization: the Advent of the Recursive Procedure, late 1950s–early 1960s". The Computer Journal. doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxr002.
  12. McCarthy, John (1960). "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine". Communications of the ACM 3 (4): 184–195. doi:10.1145/367177.367199. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
  13. Hess, H. H. (1960), Evolution of Ocean Basins, Report to Office of Naval Research. Contract No. 1858(10), NR 081-06
  14. Hess, H. H. (1962-11-01). "History of Ocean Basins" (PDF). In Engel, A. E. J.; James, Harold L.; Leonard, B. F., ed. Petrologic Studies: a volume in honor of A. F. Buddington. Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America. pp. 599–620.
  15. Suzuki, Michio (1960). "A new type of simple groups of finite order". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (United States) 46: 868–870. Bibcode:1960PNAS...46..868S. doi:10.1073/pnas.46.6.868. ISSN 0027-8424. JSTOR 70960. MR 0120283.
  16. Ree, Rimhak (1960). "A family of simple groups associated with the simple Lie algebra of type (G2)". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 66: 508–510. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1960-10523-X. ISSN 0002-9904. MR 0125155. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  17. 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.
  18. Adam, John (1999-02-05). "Making Hearts Beat". InnovativeLives. Lemelson Center. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  19. Dee, R. (2003). "Who Assisted Whom?". Texas Heart Institute Journal 30 (1): 90. PMC 152850. PMID 12638685.
  20. Haller, J. D.; Olearchyk, A. S. (2002). "Cardiology's 10 Greatest Discoveries". Texas Heart Institute Journal 29 (4): 342–4. PMC 140304. PMID 12484626.
  21. "Smoking is Linked to Heart Disease". The New York Times. June 7, 1960. p. 36.
  22. "History of Kidney Transplantation in Edinburgh". EdREN. Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. 2001. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
  23. International Bureau of Weights and Measures (2006). Le Système international d'unités (SI) – The International System of Units (SI) (PDF) (8th ed.). p. 110. ISBN 92-822-2213-6.
  24. 11th CGPM (1960): Resolution 12.
  25. Leakey, Richard E. (1981). The Making of Mankind. Elsevier-Dutton Publishing Co., Inc. pp. 65–66. ISBN 0-525-15055-2.
  26. U.S. Patent 3,243,634. Bellis, Mary. "History of Lighting and Lamps". About.com. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
  27. At Photokina.