1957 in science
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The year 1957 in science and technology.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- October 4 - Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite
- Project Orion begins, a U.S. program to build a spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions.
Biology
- Structure of myoglobin determined by x-ray crystallography
Computer Science
- Prim's algorithm developed
- IBM makes FORTRAN scientific programming language available to customers. It becomes the most widely used computer language for technical work.
Exploration
- Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station established
Physics
- BCS theory of superconductivity developed by John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer
Awards
Births
- July 12 - Rick D. Husband (d. 2003), American astronaut.
Deaths
- February 8 - John von Neumann (b. 1903), mathematician.
- February 18 - Henry Norris Russell (b. 1877), astronomer.
- May 7 - Wilhelm Filchner (b. 1877), explorer.
- August 21 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (b. 1888), meteorologist and oceanographer.