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.

As of 1997, scientists counted 97 iguanas living on Baltra ; 13 of which were born on the islands.

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.

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.

A 1997 excavation at Cowboy Wash near Dolores, Colorado, found remains of at least twenty-four human skeletons that showed evidence of violence and dismemberment, with strong indications of cannibalism.

Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series.

* Since 1997, a series of cultural, art, music and entertainment events have taken place in November at various locations in the town, under the title, Novembernebel ( November fog )

In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

* 1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.

By 1997, the refinery reached the same rate of production it was at before the war.

Hill accepted a position as a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at University of California, Berkeley in January 1997, but soon joined the faculty of Brandeis University — first at the Women's Studies Program, later moving to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.

Other productions in the United States include one in 1902 starring Minnie Maddern Fiske and a 1997 production starring Janet McTeer ( in a critically acclaimed performance ) at the Belasco Theater, which received three Tony Awards and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play.

Lowenstein ( 2000 ) describes that LTCM established an arbitrage position in Royal Dutch Shell in the summer of 1997, when Royal Dutch traded at an 8 to 10 percent premium.

President Bill Clinton ( center ), first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ( right ) and their daughter Chelsea Clinton ( left ) wave to watchers at a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1997.

Bill Clinton and Jiang Zemin holding a joint press conference at the White House, October 29, 1997

The Council of the European Union decided against Belarus in 1997: The PCA was not concluded, nor was its trade-related part ; Belarusian membership in the Council of Europe was not supported ; bilateral relations at the ministerial level were suspended and EU technical assistance programs were frozen.

The Black Sea deluge theory ( published in 1997 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University ) contends that the Bosphorus was formed about 5600 BC when the rising waters of the Mediterranean / Sea of Marmara breached through to the Black Sea, which at the time ( according to the theory ) was a low-lying body of fresh water.

The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin ( 1997 ) – fresh look at the intellectual roots of Franklin

Barney died on August 12, 1997, and in his honor that night's game at Camden Yards against the Oakland Athletics was held without a public – address announcer.

The idea for Big Brother is said to have come during a brainstorm session at the Dutch-based international television production firm Endemol, on March 10, 1997.

In February 1997, cloning became the focus of media attention when Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute announced the successful cloning of a sheep, named Dolly, from the mammary glands of an adult female.

The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

Until June 2007, The New York Times, from which the Square gets its name, was published at offices at 239 West 43rd Street ; the paper stopped printing papers there on June 15, 1997.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.