1966 in science

Events

  • April 19th: Transplantation of an artificial heart with Houston. The patient survives 5 days.
  • July 2nd: First French atomic bomb in the Pacific.
  • August 31st: While going down to 1152 m in the Pit from Holy Pierre Martin, a team of Belgian speleologists beats the world records of underground depth.

  • Launching with the end of the year of the program ARPANET, ancestor of Internet, under the impulse of the psychologist Joseph Licklider.

Space & astronomy

  • February 3rd. First landing on the the Moon carefully made a success of by the Soviet probe Luna 9. It transmits the first images of the lunar ground.
  • February 26th: Program Apollo. Successful launch of a capsule Apollo using a rocket Saturn.
  • March 16th: First mooring in space, between the cabin Gemini 8 (Neil Armstrong and David Scott) and a Agena target.
  • March 28th: Launching of the first orbital astronomical observatory (OAO).
  • May 18th: The Soviet satellite Molnya 1 transmits the first televised image of the surface of the Earth.
  • June 2nd: The American probe Surveyor 1, launched the May 30th, is posed on the the Moon carefully and transmits photographs of the lunar ground.
  • August 10th: Launching of the first American artificial satellite of the Moon, Luna To orbit 1 .
  • 11 - November 15th: The space program Gemini ends with the launching of Gemini 12.
  • November 17th: The meteoritic swarm of the Léonides causes a rain of 2300 meteors at the minute during 20 minutes in Arizona.
  • November 6th: The astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin make a success of a last stowing with a Agena rocket.

Publications

Price

  • Nobel Prize:
    • October 13rd: Physiology or medicine: Francis Peyton Rous (American), Charles Brenton Huggins (Canadian) for their work on the Cancer.
    • November 3rd:
      • Physical: Alfred Kastler for his work on optical pumping allowing the settling of the lasers.
      • Chemistry: Robert Sanderson Mulliken (American) for his theory of orbital molecular.

  • Medal Fields: Michael Atiyah (British), Paul Cohen (American), Alexandre Grothendieck (French), Stephen Smale (American)

  • Price Turing: Alan J. Perlis
  • Medal Wollaston: Francis Edward Shepard

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