Home > 1962 in science

The year 1962 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

1 Astronomy and space exploration

• January 26 - Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles.
• February 2 - For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto align.
• February 20 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John GlennThis article is about the U. astronaut and senator. Another famous person with a similar name is English film director John Glen (with one 'N'). John Herschel Glenn Jr. born July 18, 1921) is a former American fighter pilot, astronaut, and politician. orbits the EarthEarth also known as the Earth or Terra is the planet on which we live, the third planet outward from the Sun. It is the largest of the solar system's terrestrial planets, and the only planetary body that modern science confirms as harbouring life. The pla three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes becoming the first American to orbit the Earth.
• April 26April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining. Events 1478 The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral. 1607 English col - The Ranger 4Ranger 4 was a spacecraft of the Ranger program designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to impacting on the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma- spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

2 Awards

• Nobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. It is generally regarded as the supreme commes
  • PhysicsList of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External links Official site (source for all citatio - Lev Davidovich LandauLev Davidovich Landau ( January 22, 1908 April 1, 1968) was a Russian physicist. Landau was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Russian Empire (now Baky, Azerbaijan). His broad field of work included the theory of superconductivity and superfluidity, quantum electr
  • Chemistry - Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew
  • Medicine - Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins