Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The year 1957 CE in science and technology. See also: 1956 in science, other events of 1957, 1958 in science, list of years in science. Table of contents 1 Aeronautics 2 Biology 3 Computer Science 4 Exploration 5 Physics 6 Deaths Aeronautics October 4 - Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite Biology Structure of myoglobin determined by x-ray crystallography Computer Science Prim's algorithm developed Exploration Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station established Physics BCS theory of superconductivity developed by John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer Deaths February 8 - John von Neumann, mathematician February 18 - Henry Norris Russell, astronamer March 11 - Alexander Fleming (b. 1881), scientist. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.