The priority of the discovery and therefore the naming of the element was disputed between Soviet and American scientists, and it was not until 1997 that International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) established Soviet team priority and a compromise name of dubnium as the official name for the element.

* 1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.

* 1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the " out of Africa theory " of human evolution placing an " African Eve " at 100, 000 to 200, 000 years ago.

The priority of the discovery and therefore the naming of the element was disputed between Soviet and American scientists, and it was not until 1997 that International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) established rutherfordium as the official name for the element.

In 1997, scientists partially confirmed such techniques by creating chicken female sperm in a similar manner.

In 1997, scientists recorded a record clarity of 43. 3 meters ( 142 ft ).

Since 1997, federal, state, and private sector scientists have worked closely with growers, input providers, millers, and food processors from across the country to design and fund just such a system.

It was issued in an updated form 1997 and revised in 2005, claimed to have been signed by 80 Scientists and 25 Television News Meteorologists while the posting of 33 additional signatories is pending verification that those 33 additional scientists still agree with the statement.

From 1990-1, he was an IT consultant at Pfizer Central Research in Sandwich, south Thanet, where Viagra was discovered, advising research scientists on the design of computer systems, before being working as Head of Computer User Support until 1997.

The term is also used by some political scientists to describe the British colonial government in Hong Kong ( 1842 – 1997 ).

Although independent scientists who have used the same or similar methods as Farwell's brain fingerprinting have achieved similar, highly accurate results ( Allen & Iacono 1997 ; see also Harrington v. State 2001 ), different methods have yielded different results.

Farwell and colleagues ( e. g. Farwell & Smith 2001 ) as well as other, independent scientists who have precisely replicated Farwell's research or used similar methods ( e. g., Iacono and colleagues, Allen & Iacono 1997 ), have obtained accuracy rates approaching 100 % in both laboratory and field conditions ( Farwell et al.

One significant event was the ' Science and Its Critics ' conference in early 1997 ; it brought together scientists and scholars who study science and featured Alan Sokal and Steve Fuller as keynote speakers.

Mike Nauenberg, a physicist at the University of California at Santa Cruz, organized a small conference in May 1997 that was attended by scientists and sociologists of science alike, among them Alan Sokal, N. David Mermin and Harry Collins.

A proposed definition for both terms as the " physical totality of all traits of an organism or of one of its subsystems " was put forth by Mahner and Kary in 1997, who argue that although scientists tend to intuitively use these and related terms in a manner that does not impede research, the terms are not well defined and usage of the terms is not consistent.

* In the 1997 PC game Outpost 2: Divided Destiny, one of the items available for research was hypnopædia, which allowed scientists to be trained more quickly.

In 1997, Russian scientists gave his name to a newly discovered minor planet.

In 1997, scientists at the Joint European Torus ( JET ) facilities in the UK produced 16 megawatts of fusion power in the laboratory and have studied the behavior of fusion products ( alpha particles ) in weakly burning plasmas.

A 1997 survey of scientists in fields pertinent to evaluating estrogens found that 13 percent regarded the health threats from xenoestrogens as " major ," 62 percent as " minor " or " none ," and 25 percent were unsure.

The title of doctor honoris causa was granted to 15 renowned scientists: Prof. Dr. Witold Starkiewicz ( 1973 ), Prof. Dr. Kazimierz Stojalowski ( 1974 ), Prof. Dr. Eugeniusz Mietkiewski ( 1985 ), Prof. Dr. Jerzy Kulczycki ( 1987 ), Prof. Dr. Andre Raymond Ardaillou ( 1991 ), Prof. Dr. Marek Eisner ( 1992 ), Prof. Dr. Zbigniew Janczuk ( 1994 ), Prof. Dr. Franciszek Kokot ( 1995 ), Prof. Dr. Leonidas Samochowiec ( 1995 ), Prof. Dr. Hans Schadewaldt ( 1995 ), Prof. Dr. Eberhard Ritz ( 1996 ), Prof. Dr. Dietrich Kettler ( 1996 ), prof. Mary Osborne ( 1997 ), prof. Stanislaw Woyke ( 1998 ), prof. Alan Gewirtz ( 1999 ).

Y2Y was officially established in 1997 by conservationists and scientists.

In 1997, about 1, 200 of this subspecies were counted.

In 1997 the National Trust of Australia ( NSW ) called for nominations from the public for 100 Australian Living Treasures and each nomination was counted as one vote.

A Florida Department of Transportation study in September, 1997 counted 110, 743 vehicles.

The 1996 Triple J Hottest 100, counted down in January 1997, was a countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J.

Around 2, 000 descendants of the Uros were counted in the 1997 census, although only a few hundred still live on and maintain the islands ; most have moved to the mainland.

In the summer of 1997, more than 200, 000 gray bats were counted at the cave.

The counting efficiency is the ratio between the number of particles or photons counted with a radiation counter and the number of particles or photons of the same type and energy emitted by the radiation source ( IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology 2nd Edition, 1997 ).

* Trilogie van de Laatste Dag ( 1996 – 97 ) ( each of its three sections may be performed separately: ( i ) The Last Day ( texts by Lucebert, folksong A Woman and Her Lass ) for boy soprano, 4 male voices, orchestra ; ( ii ) TAO ( texts by Laozi, Kotaro Takamura ) for 4 female voices, piano voice, koto, small orchestra winds, 2 horns, harp, piano (+ celesta ), 2 percussion, minimum 14 strings ; ( iii ) Dancing on the Bones ( text by the composer ) for children's chorus, orchestra, 1997 )

* Full Circle with Michael Palin ( Travel 1996 / 97 ; Programme release 1997 ): in which he circumnavigated the lands around the Pacific Ocean anti-clockwise ; a journey of almost 50, 000 miles ( 80, 000 km ) starting on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait and taking him through Asia, Oceania and the Americas.

After a winning season in 1992, the Twins fell into a years-long stretch of mediocrity, posting a losing record each year for the next eight years: 71 – 91 in 1993, 50 – 63 in 1994, 56 – 88 in 1995, 78 – 84 in 1996, 68 – 94 in 1997, 70 – 92 in 1998, 63 – 97 in 1999 and 69 – 93 in 2000.

1. 97 million ( 1997 )

The area ( initially as Kidderminster, then after 1983 as the Wyre Forest constituency ) has been represented by Conservative MPs Gerald Nabarro 1950 – 63, Sir Tatton Brinton 1964 – 74, Esmond Bulmer 1974 – 87, Anthony Coombs 1987 – 97, and Labour MP David Lock 1997 – 2001.

The course of the Elfstedentocht of 1997 ( skated in a clockwise direction, as in ' 85, ' 86, ' 97 )

Nearly all the existing model names were gradually phased out: the Cutlass Calais in 1991, the Toronado and Custom Cruiser in 1992, the Ninety-Eight and Ciera ( formerly Cutlass Ciera ) in 1996, Cutlass Supreme in 1997, and finally the Eighty-Eight and Cutlass ( which had only been around since ' 97 ) in 1999.

* AC ' 97 ( Audio Codec 1997 ) interface between Integrated circuits on PC motherboards

* ( 1997 )-SmartSuite 4. 5 ( Windows 3. 11 )-( Word Pro 97 Edition for Windows 3. 1.

Despite assurances made when he purchased the team in 1994 that the Whalers would remain in Hartford at least through 1998, in March 1997 owner Peter Karmanos announced that the team would move elsewhere after the 1996 – 97 season because of the team's inability to negotiate a satisfactory construction and lease package for a new arena in Hartford.

During this time frame these two teams combined for a total of five Stanley Cup championships in seven years, the Avalanche winning twice ( 1995 – 96 and 2000 – 01 ) and the Red Wings winning three times ( 1996 – 97, 1997 – 98, and 2001 – 02 ).

EISA, the 32-bit extended version of ISA championed by Compaq, was used on some PC motherboards until 1997, when Microsoft declared it a " legacy " subsystem in the PC 97 industry white-paper.

The average annual rainfall over the ten years from 1997 / 98 through 2006 / 07 was 8. 97 inches ( 228 mm ).

In Regina v Eyles Matter No 60305 / 97 ( 1997 ) NSWSC 452 ( 1 October 1997 ) the offender was seen masturbating in his front garden and charged with Obscene Exposure under the Summary Offences Act 1988-Section 5.

In 1997 Cheung held his first post-retirement concert series: World Tour 97, which lasted from 12 December 1996 to 17 June 1997.

at: 1997 text :" The King of Fighters ' 97 "

The King of Fighters ' 97, released on July 28, 1997, concluded " The Orochi Saga " story arc.

Reasons for that might have been the lack of standardized and fully functional audio card standards by 1997 ( AC ' 97 was not standardized yet, and most sound cards were partially functioning " Soundblaster clones " which lacked even full duplex capabilities ) and the lack of CPU power on entry-level PC's.

Despite his age, he continued to score regularly ( being the second highest Premier League scorer in 1996 – 97 with 23 goals ), and on 13 September 1997 he broke Cliff Bastin's Arsenal goalscoring record with a hat-trick against Bolton Wanderers ( a record since surpassed by Thierry Henry in October 2005 ).

The ABL lasted two full seasons: 1996 – 97 and 1997 – 98.

* Central League Premier Division champions: 1996 – 97, 1997 – 98

After this, she starred as Dunyasha the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Cherry Orchard at Albery Theatre in London and on tour ( 1996 – 97 ), followed by another summer in Regents Park as the title character in Kiss Me, Kate ( 1997 ).