2007 in science

none 2007 science 2007 framed|right|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. Astronomy 12 January – Comet McNaught reaches perihelion and becomes visible from Earth during daylight.Rao Joe 2007 New Comet is Brightest in 30 Years http://www.space.com/3316-comet-brightest-30-years.html 25 September 2012 Space.com 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.4 March 2007 Total Lunar Eclipse March 2007 http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=40776 25 September 2012 ESA 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.Than Ker 24 April 2007 Major Discovery: New Planet Could Harbor Water and Life http://www.space.com/3728-major-discovery-planet-harbor-water-life.html 25 September 2012 Space.com 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. 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 2015.6 September 2012 Dawn departs Vesta to become first asteroid hopper https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/09/asteroid-hopping-spacecraft-ma.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120907134311/http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/09/asteroid-hopping-spacecraft-ma.html 7 September 2012 24 August 2017 New Scientist 24 October Comet 17P/Holmes suddenly brightens from 17 to 2.8 magnitude. Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center; on 5 November it enters lunar orbit. Biology 14 January – Scientists at the Roslin Institute announce they have genetically engineered chickens to lay eggs containing cancer-fighting proteins.14 January 2007 Anti-cancer chicken eggs produced https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6261427.stm 18 June 2013 BBC News 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.Holt Nathalia https://books.google.com/books?id=qjaNDQAAQBAJ Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV Penguin 2015 978-0-14-218184-3 2014 Nathalia Holt 937872774 Computer Science 9 January – Apple Inc.'s first iPhone smartphone is announced by Steve Jobs at Macworld in San Francisco;Honan Mathew Apple unveils iPhone 9 January 2007 http://www.macworld.com/article/54769/2007/01/iphone.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080415223141/http://www.macworld.com/article/54769/2007/01/iphone.html 15 April 2008 dead Macworld 25 September 2012 it is released in the United States on 29 June. 27 April – US researchers simulate half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer.27 April 2007 Mouse brain simulated on computer https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6600965.stm 18 June 2013 BBC News 23 August – Chris Messina proposes use of the hashtag on Twitter.223115412 chrismessina how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]? Chris Messina 2007-08-23 2019-09-30Parker, Ashley 2011-06-10 Twitter's Secret Handshake https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/fashion/hashtags-a-new-way-for-tweets-cultural-studies.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all 2011-07-26 The New York Times2014-12-05 Hashtag inventor: It was an 'accidental trip over a simple idea' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-30340622 2014-12-05 BBC NewsThe Inventor of the Twitter Hashtag Explains Why He Didn't Patent It http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-messina-talks-about-inventing-the-hashtag-on-twitter-2013-11 2016-03-19 Business Insider 5 November – The Open Handset Alliance launches the Android mobile operating system. Prizes Abel Prize Abel Prize 2007 Abel Prize: S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan Nobel Prize List of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine List of Nobel laureates in Physics List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Mario Capecchi, Oliver Smithies and Martin Evans 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics: Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Gerhard Ertl Deaths thumb|right|190px|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 2007 in spaceflight List of emerging technologies References Category:21st century in science Category:2000s in science