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The 1970s witnessed an explosion in the understanding of solid-state physics, driven by the development of the integrated circuit and the laser. The evolution of the computer produced an interesting duality in the physical sciences at this period — analogue recording technology had reached its peak and was incredibly sophisticated.
The year 1970 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. ... 1882), German physicist and recipient of the 1954 Nobel Prize in physics. [17]
This timeline lists significant discoveries in physics and the laws of nature, including experimental discoveries, theoretical proposals that were confirmed experimentally, and theories that have significantly influenced current thinking in modern physics. Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process.
February 8 – After 84 days in space, the last crew of the temporary American space station Skylab return to Earth.; February 13–15 – Sagittarius A*, thought to be the location of a supermassive black hole, is identified by Bruce Balick and Robert Brown using the baseline interferometer of the United States National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
1970: James H. Ellis proposed the possibility of "non-secret encryption", more commonly termed public-key cryptography, a concept that would be implemented by his GCHQ colleague Clifford Cocks in 1973, in what would become known as the RSA algorithm, with key exchange added by a third colleague Malcolm J. Williamson, in 1975.
14 April 1970: Farthest distance from Earth traveled by humans. USA (NASA) Apollo 13 [25] [note 1] 24 September 1970: First automatic sample return from the Moon. USSR Luna 16: 17 November 1970: First rover on another celestial body (the Moon). First lunar rover. USSR Lunokhod 1: 12 December 1970: First X-ray orbital observatory. USA (NASA ...
Pages in category "1970s in science" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Allan and Beatrix Gardner's attempts to teach American Sign Language to the chimpanzee Washoe (1970s) Martin Seligman studies learned helplessness in dogs (1970s) Rosenhan experiment (1972). It involved the use of healthy associates or "pseudopatients", who briefly simulated auditory hallucinations in an attempt to gain admission to 12 ...