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1966
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Fields
Archaeology
Technology
Sustainable energy research
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v
t
e
The year
1967 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events, listed below.
Anthropology
[
edit
]
October 12 –
Desmond Morris
publishes
The Naked Ape
.
[1]
Astronomy and space exploration
[
edit
]
January 27 – Astronauts
Gus Grissom
,
Ed White
, and
Roger B. Chaffee
are killed in a fire during a plugs-out test for
Apollo 1
.
January 27 – The United States,
Soviet Union
and
UK
sign the
Outer Space Treaty
.
April 20 –
Surveyor 3
probe
lands on the
Moon
.
April 24 –
Soviet
cosmonaut
Vladimir Komarov
is killed during the landing of
Soyuz 1
.
October 18 – The Soviet
Venera 4
probe descends through the
Venusian
atmosphere, which it analyzes.
October 19 –
Mariner 5
probe flies by
Venus
.
November 9 –
Apollo program
:
NASA
launches a
Saturn V
rocket carrying the unmanned
Apollo 4
test spacecraft from
Cape Kennedy
.
November –
Pulsars
discovered by
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
working with
Antony Hewish
at the
University of Cambridge
,
[2]
for which Hewish is awarded a
Nobel Prize in Physics
in 1974. These rapidly pulsating radio sources are explained a year later as rotating
neutron stars
.
NRAO
builds the 36-foot
Radio Telescope
,
later to become
the
ARO 12m Radio Telescope
.
Biology
[
edit
]
Chimpanzee
Washoe
begins to learn
American Sign Language
.
Robert H. MacArthur
and
E. O. Wilson
publish
The Theory of Island Biogeography
.
Cartography
[
edit
]
Arno Peters
reinvents the
Gall orthographic
equal-area projection
.
Computing
[
edit
]
May -
Ole-Johan Dahl
and
Kristen Nygaard
presented their paper on
Class
and
Subclass
declarations at the IFIP Working Conference on
simulation languages
in
Oslo
, May 1967. This paper became the first formal definition of
Simula 67
.
June –
CDC 7600
supercomputer
released.
Mathematics
[
edit
]
Errett Bishop
publishes
Foundations of Constructive Analysis
, proving
theorems
in
real analysis
using
constructive analysis
.
[3]
Michael Goldberg demonstrates that none of the original
Malfatti circles
are ever optimal.
[4]
Robert Langlands
proposes
his conjectures
.
[5]
Physics
[
edit
]
The
electroweak interaction
theory is introduced by
Steven Weinberg
.
[6]
The
Toda lattice
is introduced by
Morikazu Toda
as a simple model for a one-dimensional crystal in
solid state physics
.
[7]
Physiology and medicine
[
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]
January 12 – The body of American psychologist Dr
James Bedford
becomes the first to undergo
cryopreservation
with the intent of future resuscitation.
May – Dr
René Favaloro
performs the first
saphenous vein
autograft
in
coronary artery bypass surgery
, at the
Cleveland Clinic
in the United States.
[8]
August –
1967 Marburg virus outbreak in West Germany
leads to identification of
Marburg virus
.
[9]
October 14 –
Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig
publishes her demonstration that mice can acquire immunity to the
Plasmodium berghei
parasite by exposing the mice to
P. berghei
sporozoites
that have been inactivated by
X-ray
irradiation
.
[10]
December 3 – Dr
Christiaan Barnard
and a team including his brother
Marius
perform the first successful human
heart transplantation
, at
Groote Schuur Hospital
in
Cape Town
,
South Africa
, on
Louis Washkansky
, who survives for eighteen days before dying of
pneumonia
.
December 6 – Dr
Adrian Kantrowitz
performs the first pediatric heart transplant, at
Maimonides Medical Center
in
Brooklyn
, United States, on a 19-day-old infant, who survives for six hours.
[11]
[12]
Thomas Starzl
performs the first successful human
liver transplantation
, at the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
.
First use, in a case of
myocardial infarction
, of the
intra-aortic balloon pump
invented by Dr
Adrian Kantrowitz
and his brother
Arthur
.
[13]
Neurosurgeons
Jean Talairach
and Gabor Szikla create the
Talairach coordinates
for
brain mapping
.
[14]
Charles Kelman
introduces
phacoemulsification
for
cataract surgery
.
St Christopher's Hospice
, the world's first purpose-built secular
hospice
specialising in
palliative care
of the
terminally ill
, is established in
South London
by
Cicely Saunders
with the support of
Albertine Winner
.
[15]
Technology
[
edit
]
June 27 – The first
automated teller machine
, devised by
John Shepherd-Barron
, enters service, in London.
[16]
Date unknown – The first
hydraulic breaker
"Hydraulikhammer HM 400" is invented by German company
Krupp
.
Awards
[
edit
]
Nobel Prizes
Physics
–
Hans Bethe
Chemistry
–
Manfred Eigen
,
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
,
George Porter
Medicine
–
Ragnar Granit
,
Haldan Keffer Hartline
,
George Wald
Turing Award
–
Maurice Vincent Wilkes
Births
[
edit
]
February 24 –
Brian Schmidt
, Australian astrophysicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics
(2011).
Ardem Patapoutian
, Armenian-American neurophysicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
(2021).
Deaths
[
edit
]
January 3 –
Reginald Punnett
(born
1875
),
English
geneticist
.
January 16 –
Robert J. Van de Graaff
(born
1901
),
American
physicist
.
January 19 –
Casimir Funk
(born
1884
),
Polish
biochemist
, coined the term
vitamin
.
January 27 –
Apollo 1
American
astronauts
Roger Chaffee
(born
1935
)
[17]
Gus Grissom
(born
1926
)
[18]
Ed White
(born
1930
).
[19]
February 18 –
J. Robert Oppenheimer
(born
1904
), American physicist.
March 27 –
Jaroslav Heyrovský
(born
1890
),
Czech
chemist
.
April 5 –
Hermann Joseph Muller
(born
1890
), American geneticist.
April 24 –
Vladimir Komarov
(born
1927
), Soviet Russian
cosmonaut
on
Soyuz 1
.
May 5 –
Owen Thomas Jones
(born
1878
),
Welsh
geologist
.
May 27 –
Tilly Edinger
(born
1897
),
German American
paleoneurologist
.
August 22 –
Gregory Goodwin Pincus
(born
1903
), American
biologist
, co-inventor of the
combined oral contraceptive pill
.
October 27 –
Kurt Schneider
(born
1887
),
German
psychiatrist
.
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