1966 in science

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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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Computer science

• Martin Richards designs the BCPL programming language.

[edit] Psychology

• On Aggression and Behind the Mirror are published by Konrad Lorenz.

[edit] 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

[edit] Births

• June 13 - Grigori Perelman, mathematician.

[edit] 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.fr:1966 en science

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