Editing 1957 in science (section)

==Physics==
* July – [[Hugh Everett III]] publishes the first scientifically founded [[many-worlds interpretation]] of [[Interpretations of quantum mechanics|quantum mechanics]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Hugh|last=Everett|year=1957|title='Relative state' formulation of quantum mechanics|journal=[[Reviews of Modern Physics]]|volume=29|pages=454–462|url=http://www.univer.omsk.su/omsk/Sci/Everett/paper1957.html|doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.29.454|bibcode=1957RvMP...29..454E|issue=3|access-date=2015-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027191052/http://www.univer.omsk.su/omsk/Sci/Everett/paper1957.html|archive-date=2011-10-27|url-status=dead|url-access=subscription}}
*{{lay source |template=cite encyclopedia |author=Jeffrey Barrett |entry=Everett's Relative-State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics |url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-everett/ |encyclopedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy}}</ref>
* August – [[ZETA (fusion reactor)|ZETA fusion reactor]] begins operation at the [[Atomic Energy Research Establishment]], [[Harwell, Oxfordshire]].
* [[BCS theory]] of [[superconductivity]] developed by [[John Bardeen]], [[Leon Cooper]], and [[Robert Schrieffer]].
* [[B2FH paper|B<sup>2</sup>FH]], an astrophysics paper by the British astronomers [[Geoffrey Burbidge]], [[Margaret Burbidge]] and [[Fred Hoyle]] and the American astronomer [[William Alfred Fowler|William Fowler]], describes the synthesis of the lightest elements through [[Stellar nucleosynthesis|nuclear processes in stars]].
* [[Rudolf Mössbauer]] discovers the [[Mössbauer effect]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Parak|first=Fritz|date=20 October 2011|title=Rudolf L. Mössbauer ''(1929–2011)''|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=478|issue=7369|page=325|doi=10.1038/478325a|bibcode = 2011Natur.478..325P|pmid=22012384|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[University of Liverpool]] [[cyclotron]] produces violation of [[charge conjugation]] symmetry.<ref>{{cite web|title=Science Places Liverpool|url=http://www.scienceplaces.org/liverpool/liverpool_list.html|year=2008|access-date=2011-03-20}}</ref>