1997 in science
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The year 1997 in science and technology had many significant events, including those listed below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- February 13 - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- July 4 - Mars Pathfinder lands on the surface of Mars
- August 25 - Launch of Explorer 71 of the Explorer program of spacecraft
- October 30 - First successful test flight of the ESA's Ariane 5 expendable launch system
Aviation
- September 7 - First test flight of the F/A-22 Raptor
Biology
- February 22 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned and was born in July 1996
- March 4 - United States President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning
- July 10 - In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago
- November 19 - In Carlisle, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive
Computer science
- May 11 - IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov, the first time a computer defeated a chess grand master in a match. Deep Blue had defeated Kasparov before, but had never won a match against him.
Geology
- May 10 - An earthquake near Ardekul in northeastern Iran kills at least 2,400
Medicine
- FDA approval of daclizumab, the first humanized antibody therapeutic.[1] (https://academickids.com:443/encyclopedia/index.php/1997_in_science#fn_antibody)
Technology
- October 15 - The first supersonic land speed record is set by the ThrustSSC team from the United Kingdom
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 17 - Clyde Tombaugh (b. 1906), astronomer, discoveror of Pluto
- April 7 - Georgi Shonin (b. 1935), cosmonaut.
- May 2 - John Carew Eccles (b. 1903), psychologist
- August 24 - Louis Essen (b. 1908), physicist, co-developer of the first practical atomic clock
- September 4 - Hans Eysenck (b. 1916), psychologist.
References
- Template:Anb Reference: Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). Immunotherapy: past, present and future (http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v9/n3/full/nm0303-269.html&filetype=pdf). Nature Medicine 9, 269-277.