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The year 1996 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

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The cloning process that produced Dolly.

Biology

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Chemistry

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Computer science

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Exploration

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Medicine

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Meteorology

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Philosophy

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Technology

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  • Zenith introduces the first HDTV-compatible front projection television in the United States. Broadcasters, TV & PC manufacturers set industry standards for digital HDTV.[40]
  • APS film format is introduced.[41]

Publications

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Awards

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Births

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Deaths

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References

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  4. ^ Gleick, James (1996-12-01). "A Bug and A Crash". New York Times Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
  5. ^ Eckart, A.; Genzel, R. (1996). "Observations of stellar proper motions near the Galactic Centre". Nature. 383 (6599): 415. Bibcode:1996Natur.383..415E. doi:10.1038/383415a0. S2CID 4285760.
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  8. ^ "1997: Dolly the sheep is cloned". BBC News. 22 February 1997. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  9. ^ "CNN - Ancient meteorite may point to life on Mars - Aug. 7, 1996". edition.cnn.com. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  10. ^ Engel, Stacia R.; Dietrich, Fred S.; Fisk, Dianna G.; Binkley, Gail; Balakrishnan, Rama; Costanzo, Maria C.; Dwight, Selina S.; Hitz, Benjamin C.; Karra, Kalpana; Nash, Robert S.; Weng, Shuai; Wong, Edith D.; Lloyd, Paul; Skrzypek, Marek S.; Miyasato, Stuart R.; Simison, Matt; Cherry, J. Michael (2014). "The Reference Genome Sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Then and Now". G3. 4 (3): 389–398. doi:10.1534/g3.113.008995. PMC 3962479. PMID 24374639.
  11. ^ Hofmann, S.; Ninov, V.; Heßberger, F. P.; Armbruster, P.; Folger, H.; Münzenberg, G.; Schött, H. J.; Popeko, A. G.; Yeremin, A. V.; Saro, S.; Janik, R.; Leino, M. (1996). "The new element 112". Zeitschrift für Physik A. 354 (3): 229–230. Bibcode:1996ZPhyA.354..229H. doi:10.1007/BF02769517. S2CID 119975957.
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  14. ^ Newborn, Monty (2011). Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 7–9. ISBN 9780857293411.
  15. ^ "Jennicam And The Birth Of 'Lifecasting'". Digg. 13 April 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  16. ^ Smartt, Ursula (2014). Media & entertainment law (Second ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis. p. 425. ISBN 9781317808169.
  17. ^ Greenberg, Andy (2009-10-05). "The Man Who's Beating Google". Forbes. Archived from the original on September 22, 2009.
  18. ^ Yanhong Li (1998). "Toward a qualitative search engine". IEEE Internet Computing. 2 (4): 24–29. doi:10.1109/4236.707687. S2CID 14854613.
  19. ^ "About RankDex". IDD Information Services. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  20. ^ USPTO, "Hypertext Document Retrieval System and Method" Archived 2011-12-05 at the Wayback Machine, US Patent number: 5920859, Inventor: Yanhong Li, Filing date: 5 February 1997, Issue date: 6 July 1999.
  21. ^ Kahle, Brewster (March 1997). "Archiving the Internet". Scientific American. Archived from the original on 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
  22. ^ "The first quantum search algorithm on a scalable quantum computer has important implications". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  23. ^ Getting information from the IRC system: Linux Basic. AL1-032 (in Polish). NOITE S.C. p. 5.
  24. ^ "Historical Badass: Goran Kropp, the Man Who Rode to Everest - adventure journal". www.adventure-journal.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  25. ^ "About the Cochrane Library". The Cochrane Library. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  26. ^ Samson, M.; et al. (March 1996). "Molecular cloning and functional expression of a new human CC-chemokine receptor gene". Biochemistry. 35 (11): 3362–7. doi:10.1021/bi952950g. PMID 8639485.
  27. ^ Hammer, S. M.; et al. (September 1997). "A controlled trial of two nucleoside analogues plus indinavir in persons with human immunodeficiency virus infection". The New England Journal of Medicine. 337 (11): 725–33. doi:10.1056/NEJM199709113371101. PMID 9287227. S2CID 24043435.
  28. ^ Engel, Jonathan (2006). The Epidemic. New York: Smithsonian Books/Collins. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-06-114488-2.
  29. ^ Will, R. G.; Ironside, J. W.; Zeidler, M.; Estibeiro, K.; Cousens, S. N.; Smith, P. G.; Alperovitch, A.; Poser, S.; Pocchiari, M.; Hofman, A. (1996). "A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK". The Lancet. 347 (9006): 921–925. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(96)91412-9. PMID 8598754. S2CID 14230097.
  30. ^ Nasreddine, Z. S.; et al. (2005). "The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: a brief screening tool for mild cognitive impairment". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 53 (4): 695–9. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53221.x. PMID 15817019. S2CID 9014589.
  31. ^ Hofmann, M.; Hock, C. (2001). "Alzheimer's Disease: Antidementive Drugs". International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. pp. 418–423. doi:10.1016/B0-08-043076-7/03738-4. ISBN 9780080430768.
  32. ^ Tsopelas, Nicholas D.; Marin, Deborah B. (2001). "Cholinergic Treatments of Alzheimer's Disease". Functional Neurobiology of Aging. pp. 475–486. doi:10.1016/B978-012351830-9/50034-2. ISBN 9780123518309.
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  34. ^ Boolell, M.; Allen, M. J.; Ballard, S. A.; Gepi-Attee, S.; Muirhead, G. J.; Naylor, A. M.; Osterloh, I. H.; Gingell, C. (1996). "Sildenafil: an orally active type 5 cyclic GMP-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor for the treatment of penile erectile dysfunction". International Journal of Impotence Research. 8 (2): 47–52. PMID 8858389.
  35. ^ Lipman, Don (7 January 2013). "One wild storm: A look back at the 'Blizzard of '96'". Washington Post. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  36. ^ "Death Toll in Bangladesh Tornado Rises to at Least 443". The New York Times. 15 May 1996. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  37. ^ "GEOSCAN Search Results: Fastlink". geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca. 2015-12-07. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  38. ^ "'What am I going to do?': Saguenay resident recalls flood that swept away his home". CBC News. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  39. ^ "The Conscious Mind David J. Chalmers". www.oupcanada.com. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  40. ^ Constable, George; Somerville, Bob (2003). A Century of Innovation: Twenty Engineering Achievements that Transformed Our Lives. Joseph Henry Press. p. 71. ISBN 9780309089081.
  41. ^ Andrews, Philip (2015). Langford's Starting Photography: The Guide to Creating Great Images. CRC Press. p. 46. ISBN 9781317552833.
  42. ^ Sokal, Alan D. (1996). "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity". Social Text (46/47): 217–252. doi:10.2307/466856. JSTOR 466856. S2CID 1546862.
  43. ^ Sokal, Alan D. (May 1996). "A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies". Lingua Franca. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
  44. ^ Prigogine, Ilya (1 January 1996). La Fin des certitudes (in French). Éditions Odile Jacob. Retrieved 20 February 2018 – via Amazon.
  45. ^ Schmandt-Besserat, Denise (1996-06-05). How Writing Came About By Denise Schmandt-Besserat. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292774865. Archived from the original on 2020-08-31. Retrieved 20 February 2018. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  46. ^ "Nobel Prizes 1996". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  47. ^ "Willard Van Orman Quine". Inamori Foundation. Archived from the original on 2013-07-20. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  48. ^ "Amir Pnueli". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  49. ^ "The Geological Society of London - Wollaston Medal". www.geolsoc.org.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  50. ^ "Dolly the sheep". National Museums Scotland. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  51. ^ Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century. Elsevier. 2012. p. 175. ISBN 9780080930664.
  52. ^ "About Solomon Asch". www.brynmawr.edu. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  53. ^ Song, Yuwu (2014). Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China. McFarland. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4766-0298-1.
  54. ^ "Obituary: David Packard". The Independent. 28 March 1996. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  55. ^ "George Davis Snell - American geneticist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  56. ^ Edge, David; Harre, Rom; Brown, Andrew; Barnes, Barry; Mulkay, Michael; Fuller, Steve; Rudwick, Martin; Giere, Ronald N.; Bloor, David (1997). "Obituary: Thomas S. Kuhn (18 July 1922 - 17 June 1996)". Social Studies of Science. 27 (3): 483–502. doi:10.1177/030631297027003005. JSTOR 285595. PMID 11619257. S2CID 28154701.
  57. ^ "Tadeus Reichstein - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  58. ^ "Obituaries: Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle". The Independent. 10 August 1996. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  59. ^ "Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian - Armenian astronomer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  60. ^ "Brother Adam - British apiarist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  61. ^ HANS LIST 1896-1996
  62. ^ "Paul Erdős - Hungarian mathematician". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  63. ^ "Seymour R. Cray - American engineer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  64. ^ "U-W - Women in Astronomy: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Science Reference Services, Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  65. ^ Beery, Janet L.; Greenwald, Sarah J.; Jensen-Vallin, Jacqueline A.; Mast, Maura B. (2017). Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America. Springer. p. 97. ISBN 9783319666945.
  66. ^ Kibble, T. W. B. (1998). "Muhammad Abdus Salam, K. B. E.. 29 January 1926–21 November 1996". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 44: 387–401. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1998.0025.
  67. ^ "CNN - Carl Sagan dies at 62 - Dec. 20, 1996". edition.cnn.com. Retrieved 21 February 2018.