1963 in science

Events

June 20th: “red” Teleprinter.
June: Publication of Tests of general linguistics , Romance Jakobson.
July 19th: First Clerc's Office of an artificial heart with Houston. The patient survives 4 days.
September 30th: Departure of Brest of the Thalassa , first French oceanographical ship.
November 17th: Completion of the telecommunication network of NATO.
December 17th: Creation in Paris of the world Institute of studies against cancer.

Developed with the university of Dartmouth of the data-processing computer programming language BASIC. Very simple, it makes it possible to the students to develop their personal programs and to become programmers.
Invention of the data-processing mouse by Douglas Engelbart.
Launching by Philips of the first Tape recorder with cassettes.
the Polaroïd color makes its appearance at the same time as Instamatic Kodak.

February 14th: Launching of the geostationary first Satellite, Syncom 1 (the United States).
April 2nd: Launching of the lunar probe Luna 4 (the USSR).
May 7th: Launching of the communications satellite TELSTAR 2 (the United States).
May 15th: Mercury 9. The American astronaut Gordon Cooper carries out 22 revolutions around the Ground into 34. 19' on board spaceship Faith 7 before being recovered in the Pacific.
June 14th: The vessel Vostok 5 achieves 81 revolutions around the Earth with on its board the cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky.
June 16th: The Russian cosmonaut Valentina Terechkova is the first woman in space, on board Vostok 6.
September 20th: Kennedy proposes with the Soviet Union a program of technical collaboration peaceful and the organization of a joint forwarding towards the the Moon.
September 28th: Launching of the first American satellite with nuclear generation.
November 1st:

the astrophysicist Marteen Schmidt discovers the redshift quasars (shift towards the red of the spectral lines due at the speed of distancing).

November 5th: Physical: Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Hans Daniel Jensen for their work on the structure of the core of the atom.
Chemistry: Karl Ziegler (German), Giulio Natta (Italian)
October 17th: Physiology or medicine: Sir John Carew Eccles (Australian), Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley (British) for their work on the nervous cells.

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