2007 in science

The year 2007 in science and technology involves many significant events.

Astronomy

• March 3-March 4 - A total lunar eclipse occurs, visible in some parts of the Americas and Asia, and all of Europe and Africa.
• March 19 - A partial solar eclipse occurs, visible in Asia.
• April 10 - Spectroscopic analysis of HD 209458 b, an extrasolar planet, provides the first evidence of atmospheric water vapor beyond the Solar System.
• April 25 - Gliese 581 c is discovered and identified as a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet in the constellation Libra.
• August 28 - A total lunar eclipse occurs, visible in some parts of the Americas and Asia, and all of Australasia and the Pacific Ocean.
• September 11 - A partial solar eclipse occurs, visible in southern areas of South America.

Computing

• January 5 - Hitachi breaks the one-terabyte barrier for hard drive capacity.
• January 9 - Apple Computer's CEO Steve Jobs reveals Apple's new iPhone.

Genetic Engineering

• January 16 - Scientists in Edinburgh announce they have genetically engineered chickens which can lay eggs with the ability to fight cancer.

Space Exploration

• February 28 - The New Horizons space probe made a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter to change its trajectory towards Pluto.
• June 5 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second flyby of Venus en route to Mercury.
• September 27 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft is launched.

Awards

• Nobel Prize
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Mario Capecchi, Oliver Smithies and Martin Evans
  • Nobel Prize in Physics: Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg
  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Gerhard Ertl
• Abel Prize in Mathematics: S. R. S. Varadhan

Deaths

• July 23 - Ernst Otto Fischer (b. 1918), Nobel Prize laureate for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.

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