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HER2 is so named because it has a similar structure to human epidermal growth factor receptor, or HER1. Neu is so named because it was derived from a rodent glioblastoma cell line, a type of neural tumor. ErbB-2 was named for its similarity to ErbB (avian erythroblastosis oncogene B), the oncogene later found to code for EGFR.
1 Astronomy and space exploration. 2 Biology. ... The year 1957 in science and technology involved some significant events, ... The discovery of Na + /K +-ATPase, ...
February 27 – James Stanley Hey, a British Army research officer, first detects radio waves emitted by the Sun, helping to pioneer radio astronomy. [1]October 3 – The first V-2 rocket is successfully launched from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany, flying a distance of 147 km and reaching a height of 84.5 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach space.
1 Astronomy and space exploration. 2 Biology. ... The year 1979 in science and technology involved some significant ... Dinosaur eggs found in the Two Medicine ...
Its discovery is generally believed to have originated in India around the 4th century AD, [65] although Singaporean mathematician Lam Lay Yong claims that the method is found in the Chinese text The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, from the 1st century AD. [66] 60 AD: Heron's formula is discovered by Hero of Alexandria. [67]
1 Astronomy and space sciences. 2 Biology. ... The year 1950 in science and technology included some significant events. ... Antihistamine discovered.
January 26 – The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, the largest aperture optical telescope in the world for 28 years, sees first light.; June 14 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, becomes the first mammal in space, in a U.S.-launched V-2 rocket, reaching an altitude of 83 miles (134 km) but dying on impact after a parachute failure.
On June 20 one has become the first man-made object to cross the Kármán line and reach the edge of space. [12] December 9 – First flight of the Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger, the second jet engined fighter aircraft to be introduced by the Luftwaffe in World War II. First operational use of a snorkel on a submarine.