1970 in science - Definition

The year 1970 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

• February 11 - Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit.
• March 31 - Explorer I reentry (after 12 years in orbit)
• April 11 - Apollo 13 ill-fated space mission launched
• April 17 - Apollo 13 returns safely to earth
• August 17 - Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet.
• November 17 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.

Computer science

• January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Hannes Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel
  • Chemistry - Luis F. Leloir
  • Medicine - Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
• Turing Award - James H. Wilkinson

Births

Deaths

• January 5 - Max Born (b. 1882), physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954.
• August 1 - Otto Heinrich Warburg (b. 1883), German physiologist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.