The year 1972 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- February 20 – Maria Goeppert Mayer (b. 1906), German-American theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- May 4 – Edward Calvin Kendall (b. 1886), American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- May 8 – Beatrice Helen Worsley (b. 1921), Canadian computer scientist.
- August 11 – Max Theiler (b. 1899), South African-born American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- August 22 – Ștefan Procopiu (b. 18990), Romanian physicist.
- August 25 – Lucien Bull (b. 1876), Irish-born French pioneer in chronophotography.
- October 1 – Louis Leakey (b. 1903), British paleoanthropologist.
- November 25 – Henri Coandă (b. 1886), Romanian aeronautical engineer.
Eldredge, N.; Gould, S. J. (1972). "Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism". In Schopf, T. J. M. (ed.). Models in Paleobiology. San Francisco: Freeman, Cooper. pp. 82–115.
Moore, Michael E.; Novak, Jeannie (2010). Game Industry Career Guide. Delmar: Cengage Learning. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4283-7647-2. In 1966, Ralph H. Baer ... pitched an idea ... to create interactive games to be played on the television. Over the next two years, his team developed the first video game system—and in 1968, they demonstrated the "Brown Box," a device on which several games could be played and that used a light gun to shoot targets on the screen. After several more years of development, the system was licensed by Magnavox in 1970 and the first game console system, the Odyssey, was released in 1972 at the then high price of $100.
Graterol, Javier (18 May 2009). "La astronomía es una ciencia apasionante". El Nacional.