In 1996 there were various scientific and technological events, some of which are presented below.
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| 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 |
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Events
- April 4 - total lunar eclipse in the equatorial zone of the Earth (phase 1.38) [1] .
- April 17 - partial solar eclipse (maximum phase 0.8799) [2] .
- July 5th - Cloning of Dolly the sheep
- September 26 - the first Russian search engine Rambler was created.
- September 27 - total lunar eclipse in the equatorial zone of the Earth (phase 1.23) [1] .
- October 27 is a partial solar eclipse (maximum phase 0.7575) [3] .
- November 21 - the first World Television Forum at the UN , since 1997, World Television Day .
Discoveries
Comet Hyakutake at its closest approach to the Earth on March 25, 1996
- January 30 - the long-periodic comet C / 1996 B2 (Hyakutake) was discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake ( jap. 武 裕 司 ) .
New animal species
- Animals described in 1996
Awards
Fullerene C 60
- Nobel Prize
- Physics - David Lee , Douglas Osherov and Robert Richardson - “For the discovery of the helium-3 superfluidity ”.
- Chemistry - Robert Curl , Harold Kroto and Richard Smelli - "For the discovery of fullerenes ."
- Medicine and Physiology - Peter Doherty , Rolf Zinkernagel - "For his discoveries in the field of the human immune system , in particular its ability to detect cells affected by the virus ."
- Baltsan Prize
- Meteorology - Arnt Eliassen ( Norway ).
- History of medieval culture: Arnaud Borst (Germany).
- Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood among Nations: International Committee of the Red Cross .
- Political science of modern international relations: Stanley Hofman (Austria - USA).
- Computer science
- Turing Award
- Amir Pnueli - for the fruitful work on the implementation of temporal logic in computational sciences , and for his outstanding contribution to the verification of programs and systems .
- Knut Award
- Andrew Yao .
- Turing Award
- Big gold medal named after MV Lomonosov
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Krasovsky - for outstanding achievements in the field of mathematical control theory and the theory of differential games .
- Friedrich Hirzebruch (Professor, Federal Republic of Germany) - for outstanding achievements in the field of algebraic geometry and algebraic topology .
- International Biology Prize
- Ryuzo Yanagimachi - reproduction biology.
Passed away
- January 26 - Mikhail Fyodorovich Reshetnev , Soviet designer, academician, head of development of dozens of space systems.
See also
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