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The year 1966 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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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.
- Notable display of the Leonids over the Americas.[1]
Biology
- The first live specimen of a Mountain Pygmy Possum (Burramys parvus), Australia's only truly hibernating marsupial, previously known only from the fossil record, is discovered.[2]
- German entomologist Willi Hennig's Phylogenetic Systematics is published in English, advancing the study of cladistics.
Computer science
- Martin Richards designs the BCPL programming language.
- Roger MacGowan and Frederick Ordway first suggest the concept of machine superorganisms in Intelligence in the Universe.
Mathematics
- Chen Jingrun publishes Chen's theorem: every sufficiently large even number can be written as the sum of a prime and a semiprime.[3]
Physiology and medicine
- Victor A. McKusick publishes the first edition of his catalogue of all known genes and genetic disorders, Mendelian Inheritance in Man.
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
- Turing Award - A.J. Perlis
Births
- June 13 - Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician.
- July 8 - Ralf Altmeyer, German virologist.
- August 7 - Jimmy Wales, American internet entrepreneur.
Deaths
- January 15 - Sergei Korolev (born 1907), Soviet space scientist.
- March 1 - Fritz Houtermans (born 1903), Prussian-born Dutch physicist.
- March 12 - Sydney Camm (born 1893), English aircraft designer.
- June 20 - Monsignor Georges Lemaître (born 1894), Belgian physicist.
- July 7 - George de Hevesy (born 1885), Hungarian winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
References
- ^ "Eye witness accounts of the 1966 Leonid Storm". P. Jenniskens/NASA-ARC. http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/1966.html. Retrieved 2011–10–13.
- ^ Turner, Vivienne and McKay, G. M. (1989). "27. Burramyidae". In Walton, D.W. and Richardson, B. J. (eds). Fauna of Australia, Volume 1B: Mammalia. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. ISBN 0-644-06056-5.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
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