1962 in science
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The year 1962 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- January 26 - Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later missed the Moon by 22,000 miles.
- February 2 - For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto align.
- February 20 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the Earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes becoming the first American to orbit the Earth.
- April 26 - The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
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Awards
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Deaths
- February 19 - Georgios Papanikolaou (b. 1883), inventor of the Pap smear.
- March 24 - Auguste Piccard (b. 1884), physicist and explorer.
- November 18 - Niels Bohr (b. 1885), Danish physicist.
- December 20 - Emil Artin (b. 1898), mathematician.
- December 24 - Wilhelm Ackermann (b. 1896), mathematician.
