1972 in science
Events
- October: Successful public demonstration of ARPANET.
- Ray Tomlinson invents the Email or email.
- Invention of the Prozac by Eli Lilly and Company.
- Economy: Dennis Meadows of the Club of Rome publishes Halte with the growth? , work which denounces the overexploitation of the natural resources of the Earth. It is initially accommodated with skepticism before the oil crises do not reveal its acuity.
- Ethnology: Opening of the Museum of arts and popular traditions of Georges-Henri River with Paris.
- Logical and Data-processing: Alain Colmerauer and Philippe Roussel creates the language Prolog .
Space
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March 3rd: The first launching of a probe (Pioneer 10), towards Jupiter.
- July 23rd: Placing in orbit of the first satellite of study of the earth resources, Landsat 1.
- 12 - April 27th: Live mission Apollo 16, first lunar landing on the high plateaus.
- 7 - September 19th: Last lunar mission Apollo 17.
- December: Abandonment of the Program Apollo because of his weak cost ratio/benefit.
Price
- Physical Nobel Prize
- : John Bardeen, Leon NR. Cooper, John Robert Schrieffer
- Chemistry: Christian B. Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein (American)
- Physiology or medicine: Gerald Mr. Edelman (American), Rodney R. Porter (British)
- Price Turing: Edsger Dijkstra
- Medal Wollaston: Hans Ramberg
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Death
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