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By 1960, magnetic core was the dominant memory technology, although there were still some new machines using drums and delay lines during the 1960s. Magnetic thin film and rod memory were used on some second-generation machines, but advances in core technology meant they remained niche players until semiconductor memory displaced both core and ...
Pages in category "1960s in technology" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. T. Timeline of computing 1950–1979
The following articles cover the timeline of United States inventions: Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), before the turn of the century; Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945), before World War II; Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991), during the Cold War
America in the 1960s was rattled by the war in Vietnam and the social movements of that time. It is similar today, the thinking goes, as America is still finding its feet after a historic pandemic ...
June 18 – Lisa Randall, American theoretical physicist. June 29 – George D. Zamka, American astronaut. September 20 – Jim Al-Khalili, Iraqi-born British theoretical physicist and science communicator. October 6 – David Baker, American biochemist and computational biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
February 13 Max Perutz publishes the structure of hemoglobin. [4]John Kendrew publishes the structure of myoglobin. [5]March 5 – British marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy announces his aquatic ape hypothesis, theorising that swimming and diving for food exerted a strong evolutionary effect partly responsible for the divergence in the common descent of humans and other great apes.
Bob Dylan goes electric, July 1965. Credit - Alice Ochs—Getty Images. T oward the end of A Complete Unknown, the new film chronicling Bob Dylan’s early career, Pete Seeger and the young Dylan ...
And in the following years, the federal government supported the establishment of a national modern science and technology system, making America a world leader in science and technology. [24] Part of America's past and current preeminence in applied science has been due to its vast research and development budget, which at $401.6bn in 2009 was ...