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List of years in science
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Table
)
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1956
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1957
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1958
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1959
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1960
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1961
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1962
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1963
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1964
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1965
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1966
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1967
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1968
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1969
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1970
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1971
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1972
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1973
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1974
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1975
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1976
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1963
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1964
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1965
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1966
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1967
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1968
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1969
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1930s
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20th century
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21st century
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The year
1966 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events, listed below.
Contents
1
Astronomy and space exploration
2
Computer science
3
Psychology
4
Awards
5
Births
6
Deaths
Astronomy and space exploration
February 3
- The unmanned Soviet
Luna 9
spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the
Moon
.
March 1
-
Venera 3
Soviet
space probe
crashes on
Venus
becoming the first
spacecraft
to land on another
planet
's surface.
March 31
- The
Soviet Union
launches
Luna 10
which later becomes the first
spacecraft
to enter orbit around the
moon
.
Computer science
Martin Richards
designs the
BCPL
programming language
.
Psychology
On Aggression
and
Behind the Mirror
are published by
Konrad Lorenz
.
Awards
Fields Prize in Mathematics
:
Michael Atiyah
,
Paul Joseph Cohen
,
Alexander Grothendieck
and
Stephen Smale
Nobel Prizes
Physics
-
Alfred Kastler
Chemistry
-
Robert S. Mulliken
Medicine
-
Peyton Rous
,
Charles Brenton Huggins
Turing Award
-
A.J. Perlis
Births
June 13
-
Grigori Perelman
,
mathematician
.
Deaths
January 15
-
Sergei Korolev
(b.
1907
),
space
scientist
.
March 1
-
Fritz Houtermans
(b.
1903
),
physicist
.
July 7
-
George de Hevesy
(b.
1885
),
chemist
Nobel laureate
.
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