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Overview of the events of 2007 in science
3 March 2007: A
total lunar eclipse occurs (time lapse shown).
The year 2007 involved many significant scientific events and discoveries, some of which are listed below.
Events, discoveries and inventions
9 January –
Apple Inc. 's first
iPhone
smartphone is announced by
Steve Jobs at
Macworld in
San Francisco ;
[1] it is released in the United States on 29 June.
12 January –
Comet
McNaught reaches
perihelion and becomes visible from Earth during daylight.
[2]
14 January –
Scientists at the
Roslin Institute announce they have
genetically engineered
chickens to lay
eggs containing
cancer -fighting
proteins .
[3]
7 February – The second "
Berlin Patient ",
Timothy Ray Brown , is given a
stem cell transplant from a donor carrying the
CCR5-Δ32 allele, which cures his
HIV/AIDS .
[4]
28 February – The
New Horizons
space probe makes a
gravitational slingshot around
Jupiter to change its trajectory towards
Pluto .
3–4 March – A
total lunar eclipse occurs, visible in some parts of the
Americas and Asia, and in all of Europe and Africa.
[5]
19 March – A
partial solar eclipse occurs, visible in Asia.
10 April – Spectroscopic analysis of
HD 209458 b , an
extrasolar planet , provides the first evidence of atmospheric water vapor beyond the
Solar System .
24 April – The potentially habitable exoplanet
Gliese 581 c is discovered in the
constellation Libra .
[6]
27 April – US researchers simulate half a virtual
mouse brain on a supercomputer.
[7]
May –
High Resolution Fly's Eye Observatory (HiRes) and
Pierre Auger Observatory present their results suggesting a confirmation for the
Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit , the theoretical limit for
ultra-high-energy cosmic rays interacting with the
Cosmic Microwave Background .
5 June –
NASA 's
MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second flyby of
Venus en route to
Mercury , which it reaches in 2011.
2 July – Venus and
Saturn are in
conjunction , with a separation of 46
arcseconds .
23 August –
Chris Messina proposes use of the
hashtag on
Twitter .
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
28 August – A total
lunar eclipse occurs, visible in some parts of the
Americas and Asia, and all of
Australasia and the Pacific Ocean.
11 September – A
partial solar eclipse occurs, visible in southern areas of South America.
27 September – NASA's
Dawn spacecraft is launched, beginning its journey to the
asteroid belt objects
Vesta and
Ceres . It reached Vesta in 2011, and Ceres in 2015.
[12]
24 October
5 November – The
Open Handset Alliance launches the
Android
mobile operating system .
Prizes
Abel Prize
Nobel Prize
Deaths
26 October 2007:
Arthur Kornberg ,
Nobel Prize -winning American
biochemist , dies aged 89.
20 February –
F. Albert Cotton (b.
1930 ),
American
chemist known for research on
transition metal chemistry
22 February –
Lucille Farrier Stickel (b.
1915 ), American wildlife toxicologist
23 March –
Paul Cohen (b.
1934 ), American mathematician, winner of the 1966
Fields Medal
27 March –
Paul Lauterbur (b.
1929 ), American chemist, winner of the 2003
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in developing
magnetic resonance imaging
4 April –
Karen Spärck Jones (b.
1935 ),
English computer scientist
7 July – Dame
Anne McLaren (b.
1927 ), English
developmental biologist and her ex-husband
Donald Michie (b.
1923 ), British AI researcher (automobile accident
23 July –
Ernst Otto Fischer (b.
1918 ),
German winner of the 1973
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering work in the area of
organometallic chemistry
12 August –
Ralph Asher Alpher (b.
1921 ), American
cosmologist
29 September –
Katsuko Saruhashi (b.
1920 ),
Japanese
geochemist
26 October –
Arthur Kornberg (b.
1918 ), American
biochemist , winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of
DNA
See also
References
^ Honan, Mathew (9 January 2007),
Apple unveils iPhone ,
Macworld , archived from
the original on 15 April 2008, retrieved 25 September 2012
^ Rao, Joe (2007).
"New Comet is Brightest in 30 Years" . Space.com. Retrieved 25 September 2012 .
^
"Anti-cancer chicken eggs produced" .
BBC News . 14 January 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2013 .
^
Holt, Nathalia (2015) [2014].
Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV . Penguin.
ISBN
978-0-14-218184-3 .
OCLC
937872774
^
"Total Lunar Eclipse March 2007" .
ESA . 4 March 2007. Retrieved 25 September 2012 .
^ Than, Ker (24 April 2007).
"Major Discovery: New Planet Could Harbor Water and Life" . Space.com. Retrieved 25 September 2012 .
^
"Mouse brain simulated on computer" . BBC News. 27 April 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2013 .
^ Messina, Chris [@chrismessina] (November 4, 2010).
"how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?" (
Tweet ). Retrieved 2019-09-30 – via
Twitter .
^ Parker, Ashley (2011-06-10).
"Twitter's Secret Handshake" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 2011-07-26 .
^
"Hashtag inventor: It was an 'accidental trip over a simple idea' " .
BBC News . 2014-12-05. Retrieved 2014-12-05 .
^
"The Inventor of the Twitter Hashtag Explains Why He Didn't Patent It" . Business Insider . Retrieved 2016-03-19 .
^
"Dawn departs Vesta to become first asteroid hopper" .
New Scientist . 6 September 2012. Archived from
the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2017 .