1963 in science explained
The year 1963 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy, astrophysics and space exploration
- January 1 – Long-period comet C/1963 A1 (Ikeya) is discovered by a Japanese amateur.
- January 4 – Soviet Luna reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach the Moon.
- May 15 – Mercury program: NASA launches the last mission of the program Mercury 9. (On June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the program is complete.)
- July 26 – Roy Kerr submits for publication his discovery of the Kerr metric, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity, predicting a rotating black hole.[1]
- October 18 – Aboard the French Véronique AGI 47 sounding rocket, a bicolor cat designated C 341, later known as Félicette, becomes the first cat in space.
- November 1 – The Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, officially opens in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
- First definite identification of a radio source, 3C 48, with an optical object, later identified as a quasar, is published by Allan Sandage and Thomas A. Matthews;[2] also Maarten Schmidt publishes significant observations on 3C 273.[3]
Biology
Cartography
Computing
Earth sciences
History of science and technology
Mathematics
Medicine
Paleontology
Physics
Psychology
Technology
Events
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 28 – Jean Piccard (born 1884), Swiss-born American chemist and explorer.
- February 5 – Barnum Brown (born 1873), American paleontologist.
- April 6 – Otto Struve (born 1897), Russian astronomer.
- May 11 – Herbert Spencer Gasser (born 1888), American physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- May 19 – Walter Russell (born 1871), American polymath.
- June 16 – Eleanor Williams (born 1884), Australian bacteriologist and serologist.
- August 30 – Marietta Pallis (born 1882), British ecologist.
- October 13 – Alan A. Griffith (born 1893), English stress engineer.
- October 2 – Olga Lepeshinskaya (born 1871), Soviet Lysenkoist biologist.
- October 25 – Karl von Terzaghi (born 1883), Austrian "father of soil mechanics".
- November 13 – Margaret Murray (born 1863), Indian-English anthropologist and author.[24]
Notes and References
- Kerr. R. P.. Gravitational field of a spinning mass as an example of algebraically special metrics. Physical Review Letters. 1963. 11. 5. 237–238. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.11.237. 1963PhRvL..11..237K.
- Matthews. Thomas A.. Thomas A. Matthews. Sandage. Allan R.. Allan Sandage. Optical Identification of 3c 48, 3c 196, and 3c 286 with Stellar Objects. 1963. The Astrophysical Journal. 138. 30–56. 1963ApJ...138...30M. 10.1086/147615. 2019-08-07. 2017-09-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20170926182841/http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=AD0404060. dead. free.
- Schmidt. Maarten. 3C 273: a star-like object with large red-shift. Nature. 1963. 197. 4872. 1040. 1963Natur.197.1040S. 10.1038/1971040a0. free.
- Pauling. L.. Zuckerkandl. E.. 1963. Chemical paleogenetics: molecular restoration studies of extinct forms of life. Acta Chemica Scandinavica. 17. 89. 10.3891/acta.chem.scand.17s-0009 . free.
- Tinbergen. Niko. 1963. On Aims and Methods in Ethology. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie. 20. 4. 410–433. 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1963.tb01161.x. 2011-03-17. 2011-06-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20110609122714/http://www.esf.edu/EFB/faculty/documents/Tinbergen1963onethology.pdf. dead.
- Book: Snyder, John P.. Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections. 1993. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-76747-5.
- Book: The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. 978-1-85986-000-7.
- 10.1038/199947a0. Vine. F. J.. Matthews. D. H.. 1963. Magnetic Anomalies Over Oceanic Ridges . Nature. 199. 947–949. 4897. 1963Natur.199..947V. 4296143.
- Feit. Walter. Thompson. John G.. Solvability of groups of odd order. 0166261. 1963. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 13. 3. 775–1029. 10.2140/pjm.1963.13.775. free.
- Lorenz. Edward N.. Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. March 1963. 20. 2. 130–141. 10.1175/1520-0469(1963)020<0130:DNF>2.0.CO;2. 1963JAtS...20..130L. free.
- Atiyah. Michael F.. Singer. Isadore M.. The Index of Elliptic Operators on Compact Manifolds. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 69. 422–433. 1963. 10.1090/S0002-9904-1963-10957-X. 3. free.
- Calixto. Machado. The first organ transplant from a brain-dead donor. Neurology. 2005. 64. 1938–42. 11. 10.1212/01.wnl.0000163515.09793.cb. 15955947. 219219246.
- Web site: Webb. Nicholas. HSL Research Guides: Ernst Ludwig Wynder Autograph Collection: John Enders, Ph.D.. guides.library.nymc.edu. New York Medical College Health Sciences Library. 2021-02-13. In 1963, Pfizer introduced a deactivated measles vaccine, and Merck & Co introduced an attenuated measles vaccine..
- Grant W. Liddle. Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association. 1993. Christy. Nicholas P.. 104. xliii–xlv. 2376630. 1343432.
- Lejeune, J.. 3 Cases of partial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 5. fr. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences. 257. 3098–102. 1963. 14095841. etal.
- Reig. O. A.. 1963. La presencia de dinosaurios saurisquios en los "Estratos de Ischigualasto" (Mesotriásico Superior) de las provincias de San Juan y La Rioja (República Argentina). Ameghiniana. 3. 1. 3–20. Spanish.
- American Journal of Physics 31: 342-355.
- Behavioral Study of Obedience. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 67. 371–378. 14049516. 10.1037/h0040525. 4. October 1963. Milgram. S. 10.1.1.599.92.
- Web site: Edward Craven Walker British inventor . Encyclopedia Britannica . 11 March 2019 . en.
- Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 978-0-14-102715-9. 2006.
- Book: The Handbook: The First Doctor — The William Hartnell Years 1963–1966. David J.. Howe. Mark. Stammers. Stephen James Walker. Stephen James. Walker. Virgin Books. London. 1994. 978-0-426-20430-5. 54.
- Web site: An Unearthly Child. Doctor Who: The Classic Series. BBC. 1995–2003. 2012-06-08.
- Web site: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 . NobelPrize.org . 11 March 2019.
- Book: Sheppard, Kathleen L.. The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman's Work in Archaeology. Lanham. Lexington. 2013. 978-0-73917-417-3. 223.