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10/31/1958 |
Smoot becomes a unit of measurement. |
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1959 |
Owen Chamberlin and Emilio Segre are awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. |
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04/12/1961 |
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. |
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05/25/1961 |
President John F. Kennedy promotes the U.S. exploration of space in Washington, D.C. |
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11/05/1961 |
Timothy Leary introduces LSD to a group of friends in Newton. |
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02/20/1962 |
Astronaut John Glenn Jr. becomes the first American to orbit the earth. |
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04/12/1962 |
LSD experiment is held at Boston University. |
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07/20/1969 |
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon. |
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10/11/1974 |
Wasserman Diagnostic Laboratory opens. |
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1979 |
Harvard professor Sheldon Glashow is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for developing a unified theory of physics. |
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