2022 Anniversaries

Science News just celebrated their 100th anniversary and posted the top 10 anniversaries for 2022.

Of their top ten, my favorite is the 400th anniversary of William Oughtred's invention of the slide rule (see prior post also using this photo of my slide rule). Another is the 50th anniversary of the Pioneer 10 launch. It was designed for a 21-month mission to fly pass Jupiter. Pioneer 10 ended up sending back information about our solar system for 30 years. The last signal was received from Pioneer 10 twenty years ago this year. One other anniversary that is very important to me is the 100th anniversary of Frederick Banting's first human trial of injecting insulin to treat a 10-year-old boy with diabetes.