1968 in science
Events
- April 28th: In France, a Greffe of heart is tried for the first time.
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Production of the cameras reflex camera to automatic check.
Data processing
- October: Conference of Garmisch (10): the writing of the software becomes a science.
- December: IBM decides to separately sell the material and software, breaking with its approach of the total system, because the costs of development of the software do not cease climbing.
- December 9th: At the time of the conference of the firms computer held at the university of Stanford in California, Doug Engelbart and its team make the demonstration for the first time of the mouse of computer. Promoted with a bright future, the mouse will revolutionize the computing world.
Car
- September: Exit of the Peugeot 504.
Space
- January 9th: Surveyor 7, last American automat before the conquest of the moon by the man, is posed carefully on the the Moon close to the Tycho crater in a mountainous region.
- April 9th: Launching of the first French rocket “Veronique” with Kourou.
- September 21st: The first recovery of a returning machine of the lunar area, the Soviet probe Zond-5.
- 21 - December 27th: First controlled lunar mission (Apollo 8). First photograph of the Ground seen the Moon by the astronauts of Apollo 8.
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Advertisement of discovered first Pulsar.
- NASA tests in terrestrial orbit the Lunar module Apollo without crew.
Price
- Physical Nobel Prize
- : Shine Walter Alvarez
- Chimie: Lars Onsager (Norwegian)
- Physiology or medicine: Robert W. Holley (American), Har Gobind Khorana (American born in Pakistan), Marshall W. Nirenberg (American)
- Price Turing: Hamming Richard
- Medal Wollaston: Raymond Cecil Moore
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