Overview of the events of 1957 in science
The year 1957 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration [ edit ]
Sputnik 1
April 2 – Caroline Dean , English plant scientist .
May 11 – Lynn J. Rothschild , American evolutionary biologist , astrobiologist and synthetic biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center .
July 12 – Rick Husband (died 2003 ), American astronaut .
October 1 – Éva Tardos , Hungarian-American computer scientist, Gödel Prize laureate.
September 11 – Julie Williams , Welsh neuropsychological geneticist.
October 6 – Ian Jacobs , English gynaecological oncologist .
October 21 – Wolfgang Ketterle , German winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2001).
November 23 – William Kaelin Jr. , American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2019).
December 29 – Bruce Beutler , American immunologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2011).
February 8
February 18 – Henry Norris Russell (born 1877 ), American astronomer .
May 7 – Wilhelm Filchner (born 1877 ), German explorer .
May 13 – Michael Fekete , (born 1886 ) Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (died 1957)
May 26 – Edward Hutchinson Synge (born 1890 ), Irish|Irish theoretical physicist .
July 3 – Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (born 1886 ), German-born English physicist.
August 16 – Irving Langmuir (born 1881 ), American chemist and physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932 .
August 21 – Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (born 1888 ), Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer .
September 21 – Henry E. Warren (born 1872 ), American inventor.
October 26 – Gerty Cori (born 1896 ), Czech American biochemist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947 .
November – Helen Boyle (born 1869 ), British physician and psychologist .
November 3 – Wilhelm Reich (born 1897 ), Austrian American psychoanalyst .
December 14 – Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (born 1901 ), English phycologist .
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^ Kendrew, J. C.; Bodo, G.; Dintzis, H. M.; Parrish, R. G.; Wyckoff, H.; Phillips, D. C. (March 1958). "A Three-Dimensional Model of the Myoglobin Molecule Obtained by X-Ray Analysis". Nature . 181 (4610): 662–6. Bibcode :1958Natur.181..662K . doi :10.1038/181662a0 . PMID 13517261 . S2CID 4162786 .
^ Skou, J. Chr. (February 1957). "The Influence of Some Cations on an Adenosine Triphosphatase from Peripheral Nerves". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta . 23 (2): 394–401. doi :10.1016/0006-3002(57)90343-8 . PMID 13412736 . S2CID 32516710 .
^ Clausen, Torben (August 2007). "J.C. Skou identified Na+ /K+ -ATPase pump – a breakthrough and its significance". Ugeskrift for Læger (in Danish). 169 (35): 2897. PMID 17878005 .
^ Darougar, S.; Jones, B. R.; Kinnison, J. R.; Vaughan-Jackson, J. D.; Dunlop, E. M. (December 1972). "Chlamydial infection: advances in the diagnostic isolation of Chlamydia, including TRIC agent, from the eye, genital tract, and rectum" . British Journal of Venereal Diseases . 48 (6): 416–420. doi :10.1136/sti.48.6.416 . PMC 1048360 . PMID 4651177 . Tang, F. F.; Chang, H. L.; Huang, Y. T.; Wang, K. C. (June 1957). "Studies on the etiology of trachoma with special reference to isolation of the virus in chick embryo". Chinese Medical Journal . 75 (6). Beijing: 429–47. PMID 13461224 . Tang, F. F.; Huang, Y. T.; Chang, H. L.; Wong, K. C. (1957). "Isolation of trachoma virus in chick embryo". Journal of Hygiene, Epidemiology, Microbiology, and Immunology . 1 (2). Prague: 109–20. PMID 13502539 .
^ "Romanian Inventions". The Reminder (46): 7 (supplement). June 1983.
^ Springer Verlag, 1957.
^ "Smoking 'causes lung cancer' " . BBC News . 1957-06-27. Archived from the original on 2007-11-10. Retrieved 2007-12-04 .
^ Moghe, Vijay V.; et al. (2008). "Thalidomide" (PDF) . Bombay Hospital Journal . 50 (3): 446. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2009-10-25 .
^ Johnston, P. V.; Johnson, O. C.; Kummerow, F. A. (1957-10-11). "Occurrence of trans Fatty Acids in Human Tissue". Science . 126 (3276): 698–699. Bibcode :1957Sci...126..698J . doi :10.1126/science.126.3276.698-a . PMID 13467268 . S2CID 6725282 .
^ Moore, Elaine A.; Wilkinson, Samantha (2009). The Promise of Low Dose Naltrexone Therapy: Potential Benefits in Cancer, Autoimmune, Neurological and Infectious Disorders . McFarland. p. 30. ISBN 9780786452583 .
^ Ford, T. D. (1958). "Precambrian fossils from Charnwood Forest". Yorkshire Geological Society Proceedings . 31 (3): 211–217. Bibcode :1958PYGS...31..211F . doi :10.1144/pygs.31.3.211 .
^ Everett, Hugh (1957). " 'Relative state' formulation of quantum mechanics" . Reviews of Modern Physics . 29 (3): 454–462. Bibcode :1957RvMP...29..454E . doi :10.1103/RevModPhys.29.454 . Archived from the original on 2011-10-27. Retrieved 2015-09-29 .
^ Parak, Fritz (20 October 2011). "Rudolf L. Mössbauer (1929–2011) " . Nature . 478 (7369): 325. Bibcode :2011Natur.478..325P . doi :10.1038/478325a . PMID 22012384 .
^ "Science Places Liverpool" . 2008. Retrieved 2011-03-20 .
^ Sherman, Don (February 2008). "The Rotary Club". Automobile Magazine : 76–79.
^ "Националният политехнически музей празнува рожден ден в нощта на петък, 13-и" . Vesti. 13 May 2005. Archived from the original on 2012-01-20. Retrieved 9 March 2013 .
^ "6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism" . National Geographic News . 19 May 2013. Archived from the original on July 13, 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021 .