The year 1957 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
Biology
Chemistry
Computer science
Exploration
Mathematics
Medicine
Paleontology
Physics
Psychology
Technology
Events
Institutions
Awards
Births
- April 2 â Caroline Dean, English plant scientist.
- May 11 â Lynn J. Rothschild, American evolutionary biologist, astrobiologist and synthetic biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center.
- July 12 â Rick Husband (died 2003), American astronaut.
- October 1 â ÃÂva Tardos, Hungarian-American computer scientist, Gödel Prize laureate.
- August 20 â Simon Donaldson, English mathematician.
- September 11 â Julie Williams, Welsh neuropsychological geneticist.
- October 6 â Ian Jacobs, English gynaecological oncologist.
- October 21 â Wolfgang Ketterle, German winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2001).
- November 23 â William Kaelin Jr., American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2019).
- December 29 â Bruce Beutler, American immunologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2011).
Deaths
- February 8
- John von Neumann (born 1903), Hungarian American mathematician.
- Walther Bothe (born 1891), German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1954.
- February 18 â Henry Norris Russell (born 1877), American astronomer.
- May 7 â Wilhelm Filchner (born 1877), German explorer.
- May 13 â Michael Fekete, (born 1886) Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (died 1957)
- May 26 â Edward Hutchinson Synge (born 1890), Irish|Irish theoretical physicist.
- April 16 â Pieter van der Hoog, Dutch bacteriologist, dermatologist, and Islamicist (born 1888)
- July 3 â Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (born 1886), German-born English physicist.
- August 16 â Irving Langmuir (born 1881), American chemist and physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932.
- August 21 â Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (born 1888), Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer.
- September 21 â Henry E. Warren (born 1872), American inventor.
- October 26 â Gerty Cori (born 1896), Czech American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947.
- November â Helen Boyle (born 1869), British physician and psychologist.
- November 3 â Wilhelm Reich (born 1897), Austrian American psychoanalyst.
- December 14 â Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (born 1901), English phycologist.
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