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Overview of the events of 1996 in science
The year 1996 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
The cloning process that produced Dolly .
Biology
Chemistry
Computer science
Exploration
May 23 – Swede summit alone without
oxygen after having bicycled there from Sweden.
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Medicine
Meteorology
Philosophy
Technology
Zenith introduces the first
HDTV -compatible front projection television in the United States. Broadcasters, TV & PC manufacturers set industry standards for digital HDTV.
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APS film format is introduced.[42]
Publications
Awards
Births
Deaths
January 12 – Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (b. 1903 ), Dutch mathematician .[52]
February 20 –
March 19 – Chen Jingrun (b. 1933 ), Chinese mathematician.[54]
March 26 – David Packard (b. 1912 ), American electrical engineer.[55]
June 6 –
June 17 – Thomas Kuhn (b. 1922 ), American philosopher of science.[57]
August 1 – Tadeusz Reichstein (b. 1897 ), Polish-Swiss winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .[58]
August 9 – Sir aeronautical engineer.
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August 12 – Victor Ambartsumian (b.
1908 ), Soviet Armenian theoretical astrophysicist.
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September 1 – Karl Kehrle (Brother Adam) (b. 1898 ), British Benedictine monk and beekeeper .[61]
September 10 – Hans List (b. 1896 ), Austrian inventor.[62]
September 20 – Paul Erdős (b. 1913 ), Hungarian-born mathematician.[63]
October 5 – Seymour Cray (b. 1925 ), American supercomputer architect.[64]
November 13 – Bobbie Vaile (b. 1959 ), Australian astrophysicist.[65]
November 19 – Grace Bates (b. 1914 ), American mathematician.[66]
November 21 – Abdus Salam (b. 1926 ), Punjabi-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics .[67]
December 20 – Carl Sagan (b. 1934 ), American astronomer .[68]
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^ "Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 2018-02-20 .
^ "Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake" . www.pbs.org . Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
^ Gleick, James (1996-12-01). "A Bug and A Crash" . New York Times Magazine . Archived from the original on 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2012-04-07 .
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^ "Mars Global Surveyor" . mars.nasa.gov . Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
^ "Keck telescopes" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
^ "1997: Dolly the sheep is cloned" . BBC News . 22 February 1997. Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
^ "CNN - Ancient meteorite may point to life on Mars - Aug. 7, 1996" . edition.cnn.com . Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
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^ "Our history in depth" . Corporate Information . Retrieved 2012-04-16 .
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^ "Jennicam And The Birth Of 'Lifecasting' " . Digg . Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
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^ Greenberg, Andy (2009-10-05). "The Man Who's Beating Google" . Forbes . Archived from the original on September 22, 2009.
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^ "About RankDex" . IDD Information Services. Retrieved 2014-06-04 .
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^ Kahle, Brewster (March 1997). "Archiving the Internet" . Scientific American . Archived from the original on 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2011-08-19 .
^ "The first quantum search algorithm on a scalable quantum computer has important implications" . MIT Technology Review . Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
^ Getting information from the IRC system: Linux Basic. AL1-032 (in Polish). NOITE S.C. p. 5.
^ "Historical Badass: Goran Kropp, the Man Who Rode to Everest - adventure journal" . www.adventure-journal.com . Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
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^ Lipman, Don (7 January 2013). "One wild storm: A look back at the 'Blizzard of '96' " . Washington Post . Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
^ "Death Toll in Bangladesh Tornado Rises to at Least 443" . The New York Times . 15 May 1996. Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
^ "GEOSCAN Search Results: Fastlink" . geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca . 2015-12-07. Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
^ " 'What am I going to do?': Saguenay resident recalls flood that swept away his home" . CBC News . Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
^ "The Conscious Mind David J. Chalmers" . www.oupcanada.com . Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
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^ Sokal, Alan D. (May 1996). "A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies" . Lingua Franca . Retrieved 2015-03-09 .
^ Prigogine, Ilya (1 January 1996). La Fin des certitudes (in French). Éditions Odile Jacob. Retrieved 20 February 2018 – via Amazon.
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^ "Nobel Prizes 1996" . www.nobelprize.org . Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
^ "Willard Van Orman Quine" . Inamori Foundation. Archived from the original on 2013-07-20. Retrieved 15 December 2012 .
^ "Amir Pnueli" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 20 February 2018 .
^ "The Geological Society of London - Wollaston Medal" . www.geolsoc.org.uk . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
^ "Dolly the sheep" . National Museums Scotland . Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
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^ "About Solomon Asch" . www.brynmawr.edu . Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
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^ "Obituary: David Packard" . The Independent . 28 March 1996. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
^ "George Davis Snell - American geneticist" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
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^ "Tadeus Reichstein - Biographical" . www.nobelprize.org . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
^ "Obituaries: Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle" . The Independent . 10 August 1996. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
^ "Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian - Armenian astronomer" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
^ "Brother Adam - British apiarist" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
^ HANS LIST 1896-1996
^ "Paul Erdős - Hungarian mathematician" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
^ "Seymour R. Cray - American engineer" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
^ "U-W - Women in Astronomy: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Science Reference Services, Library of Congress)" . www.loc.gov . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .
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^ "CNN - Carl Sagan dies at 62 - Dec. 20, 1996" . edition.cnn.com . Retrieved 21 February 2018 .