1966 in science

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The year 1966 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents

Astronomy and space exploration

Biology

Computer science

Earth science

Mathematics

Pharmacology

Physiology and medicine

Psychology

Technology

Awards

Births

Deaths

References

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  2. "Eye witness accounts of the 1966 Leonid Storm". P. Jenniskens/NASA-ARC. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
  3. Gingerich, Owen (1967-01-03). "Probable New Satellite of Saturn" (discovery). IAU Circular . 1987. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  4. Turner, Vivienne; McKay, G. M. (1989). "27. Burramyidae". In Walton, D.W.; Richardson, B. J. (eds.). Fauna of Australia, Volume 1B: Mammalia. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. ISBN   0-644-06056-5.
  5. Le Pichon, Xavier (Summer 2013). "The "revolution" of Plate Tectonics in earth sciences and the relationship between science, reason and truth" (PDF). Euresis Journal. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-08. Retrieved 2014-11-25.
  6. Fabius, Jaap (1966). "A probabilistic example of a nowhere analytic C-function". Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete. 5 (2): 173–174. doi:10.1007/bf00536652. MR   0197656. S2CID   122126180.
  7. Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 37. ISBN   978-1-84724-008-8.
  8. Mumford, David (1966), "Families of abelian varieties", Algebraic Groups and Discontinuous Subgroups (Proc. Sympos. Pure Math. 9, Boulder, Colo., 1965), Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, pp. 347–351, MR   0206003
  9. Lander, L. J.; Parkin, T. R. (1966). "Counterexample to Euler's conjecture on sums of like powers". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (6): 1079. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9904-1966-11654-3 .
  10. "Birth Control: The Morning-After Pill". Time . 1966-05-06. Archived from the original on April 8, 2008. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  11. "Postcoital contraception". IPPF Medical Bulletin. 1 (4): 3. 1967. PMID   12254703.
  12. "Sir David Jack, who has died aged 87, was the scientific brain behind the rise of the pharmaceuticals company Glaxo". The Daily Telegraph. London. 2011-11-17. Archived from the original on 2011-11-25.
  13. Rett, A. (September 1966). "On an unusual brain atrophy syndrome in hyperammonemia in childhood". Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (in German). 116 (37): 723–6. PMID   5300597.
  14. Kao, K. C.; Hockham, G. A. (July 1966). "Dielectric-fibre surface waveguides for optical frequencies". Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers . 113 (7): 1151–1158. doi:10.1049/piee.1966.0189.
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  16. Komissarov, Sergey (2002). Russia's Ekranoplans: the Caspian Sea Monster and other WiG craft. Hinkley: Midland Publishing. ISBN   978-1857801460.
  17. "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022" (Press release). The Nobel Prize. 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2022-10-06.