1966 in science
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The year 1966 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[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
- Turing Award - A.J. Perlis
[edit] Births
[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.
