Movie, OVA and new manga releases edit
January edit
Events, and major news edit
January edit
- 1 January – NASA's GRAIL-B satellite successfully enters lunar orbit, joining its twin spacecraft GRAIL-A. The two satellites will study the Moon's gravitational field, generating a detailed map of its fluctuations to help scientists understand how the Moon formed.[1]
- 2 January
- China launches its first commercial 3DTV channel, operated by China Central Television (CCTV).[2]
- A new study shows that deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a safe and effective intervention for treatment-resistant depression in patients with either unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) or bipolar ll disorder (BP).[3]
- 3 January – Genetically modified fast-ageing mice exhibited improved health and lived two to three times longer than expected after being injected with stem cells, according
February edit
March edit
September edit
Prizes edit
Abel Prize edit
- 2012 Abel Prize: Endre Szemerédi
Fundamental Physics Prize edit
- 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Alan Guth, Alexei Kitaev, Maxim Kontsevich, Andrei Linde, Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg, Ashoke Sen and Edward Witten
- 2012 FPP special award: Stephen Hawking, Peter Jenni, Fabiola Gianotti, Michel Della Negra, Tejinder Singh Virdee, Guido Tonelli, Joe Incandela and Lyn Evans
Kyoto Prize edit
- 2012 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology: Ivan Sutherland[4]
- 2012 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences: Yoshinori Ohsumi[4]
Nobel Prize edit
Milestones edit
Deaths edit
Sources: The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph
January edit
- 3 January – James F. Crow, American geneticist (b. 1916).
- 6 January – Roger Boisjoly, American rocket engineer (b. 1938).
February edit
- 16 February – Donald Henry Colless, Australian entomologist (b. 1922).
- 19 February – Renato Dulbecco, Italian American virologist, winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1914).
- 24 February – Oliver Wrong, British nephrologist (b. 1925).
March edit
- 10 March – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American atmospheric chemist, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1927).
- 24 March – Sir Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist (b. 1947).
April edit
- 8 April – Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist and political activist (b. 1936).
- 20 April – George Cowan, American chemist, Manhattan Project scientist and businessman (b. 1920).
- 29 April – Roland Moreno, Egyptian-born French inventor of the smart card, Légion d'Honneur recipient (b. 1945).[5]
May edit
- 12 May
- Fritz Ursell, German-born British mathematician and fluid mechanics expert (b. 1923).
- Donald Nicholson, British biochemist (b. 1916).
- 20 May – Eugene Polley, American engineer, inventor of the wireless television remote control (b. 1915).
- 21 May – Alan Thorne, Australian anthropologist (b. 1939).
- 27 May – Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician (b. 1927).
- 30 May – Sir Andrew Huxley, British physiologist and biophysicist, winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917).
June edit
- 7 June
- Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleoanthropologist (b. 1925).
- F. Herbert Bormann, American plant ecologist, credited with the discovery of acid rain (b. 1922).
- 13 June – William Standish Knowles, American chemist, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917).
July edit
- 3 July – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automotive engineer and Senator for life (b. 1926).
- 8 July – Lord Henry Chilver, British engineer, lecturer and politician (b. 1926).
- 21 July – Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, British geologist and glaciologist (b. 1923).
- 23 July – Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut, first American woman in space (b. 1951).
- 26 July – Ralph Slatyer, Australian ecologist and first Chief Scientist of Australia (b. 1929).
August edit
- 2 August – Sir Gabriel Horn, British biologist (b. 1927).
- 3 August – Martin Fleischmann, British chemist and cold fusion theorist (b. 1927).
- 6 August – Sir Bernard Lovell, British physicist and radio astronomer (b. 1913).
- 14 August – Sergei Kapitsa, Russian physicist and TV host (b. 1928).
- 21 August – William Thurston, American mathematician, winner of the 1982 Fields Medal (b. 1946).
- 25 August – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first human being to set foot upon the Moon (b. 1930).
September edit
- 6 September – Jerome Horwitz, American chemist, inventor of the anti-HIV drug azidothymidine (b. 1919).
- 8 September – Bill Moggridge, British industrial designer who created the original laptop shape (b. 1943).
- 9 September – Ron Taylor, Australian shark expert, conservationist and filmmaker (b. 1934).
- 25 September – Dame Louise Johnson, British biochemist (b. 1940).
- 29 September – Neil Smith, Scottish geographer (b. 1954).
October edit
- 5 October – Keith Campbell, British biologist who was involved in creating the first cloned mammal (b. 1954)
- 15 October – Maria Petrou, Greek-born British artificial intelligence researcher (b. 1953).
- 17 October – Stanford Ovshinsky, American physicist and inventor who designed the battery now used in hybrid cars (b. 1922).
- 20 October
- E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, joint winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1920).
- Paul Kurtz, American skeptic, philosopher and secular humanist (b. 1925).
- 29 October – Wallace L. W. Sargent, Anglo-American astronomer (b. 1935).
November edit
- 11 November – Farish Jenkins, American paleontologist (b. 1940).
- 12 November – Daniel Stern, American psychologist (b. 1934).
- 14 November – Norman Greenwood, Australian chemist (b. 1925).
- 26 November – Joseph Murray, American surgeon and organ transplant pioneer, joint winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1919).
December edit
- 9 December
- Sir Patrick Moore, English astronomer (b. 1923).
- Alex Moulton, English mechanical engineer and inventor (b. 1920).
- Norman Joseph Woodland, American engineer, inventor of the barcode (b. 1921).
- 17 December – Colin Spedding, British agricultural scientist (b. 1925).
- 24 December – Guy Dodson, New Zealand biochemist (b. 1937).
- 27 December – Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer (b. 1924).
- 30 December
- Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and Senator for life, joint winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909).
- Carl Woese, American microbiologist (b. 1924).
References edit
- ^ "NASA's Twin Grail Spacecraft Reunite in Lunar Orbit". BBC. 1 January 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
- ^ "China launches first 3D TV channel". BBC. 2 January 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
- ^ "Deep brain stimulation shows promising results for unipolar and bipolar depression". MedicalXpress. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
- ^ a b "The 2012 Kyoto Prize Laureates". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
- ^ "Roland Moreno obituary". The Guardian. 30 April 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2012.