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The year 1965 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- February 20 - Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
- March 23 - NASA launches Gemini 3 which is the United States' first two-person space flight took (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
- November 16 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe from Baikonur, Kazakhstan toward Venus (on March 1, 1966 it became the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet).
- November 26 - At the Hammaguira launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter space.
Biology
- February 4 - Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union and Lysenkoist theories subjected to criticism.[1][2]
- Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling name their concept of the molecular clock.[3][4]
- W. Keble Martin publishes The Concise British Flora in Colour.
Chemistry
- Kevlar high-strength para-aramid synthetic fiber is developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont.[5][6]
Computer science
- March 22 - Digital Equipment Corporation launch the 12-bit PDP-8, the first successful commercial minicomputer, which will sell more than 50,000 systems, the most of any computer up to this date.[7]
- April 19 - Gordon Moore describes the exponential growth trend in computing power which will become known as Moore's law.[8][9][10]
History of science
- Ralph Lapp publishes The New Priesthood: The Scientific Elite and the Uses of Power in the United States.
Mathematics
- Lofti Zadeh develops fuzzy logic.[11]
Medicine
- Frank Pantridge instals the first portable defibrillator, in a Belfast ambulance.
Psychology
- Konrad Lorenz publishes Evolution and Modification of Behavior.
Awards
Births
- October 11 - Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, Spanish physicist.
Deaths
- August 28 - Giulio Racah (born 1909), Israeli physicist.
- September 4 - Albert Schweitzer (born 1875), Alsatian medical missionary.
- October 12 - Paul Hermann Müller (born 1899), Swiss chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948.
References
- ^ Cohen, Barry M. (1965). "The descent of Lysenko". The Journal of Heredity 56 (5): 229–233. http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/5/229.short.
- ^ Joravsky, David (1970). The Lysenko Affair. Russian Research Center studies, 61. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-53985-0.
- ^ Zuckerkandl, E.; Pauling, L. (1965). "Evolutionary Divergence and Convergence in Proteins". In Bryson, B.; Vogel, H. (ed). Evolving Genes and Proteins. New York: Academic Press. pp. 97–166.
- ^ Morgan, Gregory J. (1998). "Emile Zuckerkandl, Linus Pauling, and the Molecular Evolutionary Clock, 1959-1965". Journal of the History of Biology 31: 155–178. doi:10.1023/A:1004394418084. PMID 11620303.
- ^ Kwolek, Stephanie; Mera, Hiroshi; Takata, Tadahiko (2002). "High-Performance Fibers". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. doi:10.1002/14356007.a13_001.
- ^ "Wholly Aromatic Carbocyclic Polycarbonamide Fiber". 1974-06-25. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. http://ip.com/patent/US3819587. Retrieved 2012-03-02. US patent #3819587.
- ^ Jones, Douglas W. "The Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8". http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
- ^ Moore, Gordon E. (19 April 1965). "Cramming more components onto integrated circuits" (PDF). Electronics 38 (8). ftp://download.intel.com/museum/Moores_Law/Articles-Press_Releases/Gordon_Moore_1965_Article.pdf. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ "Excerpts from A Conversation with Gordon Moore: Moore’s Law" (PDF). Intel. 2005. ftp://download.intel.com/museum/Moores_Law/Video-Transcripts/Excepts_A_Conversation_with_Gordon_Moore.pdf. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ "1965 – "Moore's Law" Predicts the Future of Integrated Circuits". Computer History Museum. 2007. http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1965-Moore.html. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
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