1967 in science

none 1967 science 1967 The year 1967 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Anthropology October 12 – Desmond Morris publishes The Naked Ape.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/newsid_3116000/3116329.stm 1967: The Naked Ape steps out On This Day BBC News 2011-08-24 1967-10-12 Astronomy and space exploration 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,Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source Hewish A. Bell, S. J. Pilkington, J. D. H. Scott, P. F. Collins, R. A. 24 February 1968 Nature 217 5130 709–713 10.1038/217709a0 1968Natur.217..709H 4277613 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 Chimpanzee Washoe begins to learn American Sign Language. Robert H. MacArthur and E. O. Wilson publish The Theory of Island Biogeography. Cartography Arno Peters reinvents the Gall orthographic equal-area projection. Computing May – Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard present their paper on Class and Subclass declarations at the IFIP Working Conference on simulation languages in Oslo. This paper becomes the first formal definition of Simula 67. June – CDC 7600 supercomputer released. Mathematics Errett Bishop publishes Foundations of Constructive Analysis, proving theorems in real analysis using constructive analysis.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 69 Michael Goldberg demonstrates that none of the original Malfatti circles are ever optimal.David Acheson 1089 and All That Oxford University Press 2002 0-19-851623-1 106 Robert Langlands proposes his conjectures.Langlands Robert Letter to Prof. Weil. 1967 http://publications.ias.edu/rpl/section/21 PhD students William M. Boyce and John P. Huneke independently prove the common fixed point problem conjecture to be false by providing examples of commuting functions on a closed interval that do not have a common fixed point.Brown Robert F. 2021-01-15 A Good Question Won't Go Away: An Example Of Mathematical Research https://www.math.ucla.edu/~rfb/commutex5.pdf The American Mathematical Monthly 128 1 62–68 10.1080/00029890.2021.1847592 Physics The electroweak interaction theory is introduced by Steven Weinberg.Weinberg S. http://astrophysics.fic.uni.lodz.pl/100yrs/pdf/12/066.pdf A Model of Leptons Physical Review Letters 19 21 1264–1266 1967 10.1103/PhysRevLett.19.1264 1967PhRvL..19.1264W 2014-02-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20120112142352/http://astrophysics.fic.uni.lodz.pl/100yrs/pdf/12/066.pdf 2012-01-12 dead The Toda lattice is introduced by Morikazu Toda as a simple model for a one-dimensional crystal in solid state physics.Morikazu Toda Vibration of a chain with a non-linear interaction Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 22 2 1967 431–436 10.1143/JPSJ.22.431 1967JPSJ...22..431T Physiology and medicine 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.Favaloro René G. Acute coronary insufficiency (impending myocardial infarction and myocardial infarction): surgical treatment by the saphenous vein graft technique American Journal of Cardiology 28 5 598–607 November 1971 5116978 10.1016/0002-9149(71)90104-4 2643284 etal August – 1967 Marburg virus outbreak in West Germany leads to identification of Marburg virus.Siegert R. etal 10.1055/s-0028-1106144 Zur Ätiologie einer unbekannten, von Affen ausgegangenen menschlichen Infektionskrankheit Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 92 51 2341–3 2009 4294540 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.Nussenzweig Ruth Vanderberg, J. Most, H. Orton, C. Protective Immunity produced by the Injection of X-irradiated Sporozoites of Plasmodium berghei Nature 216 160–162 1967-10-14 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v216/n5111/Antibodies/216160a0.html 10.1038/216160a0 2016-03-03 5111 6057225 1967Natur.216..160N 4283134 subscription 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.Lyons Richard D. https://www.nytimes.com/1967/12/07/archives/heart-transplant-fails-to-save-2weekold-baby-in-brooklyn-heart.html Heart Transplant Fails to Save 2-Week-old Baby in Brooklyn The New York Times 7 December 1967 2008-11-19http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837606,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20081215133953/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837606,00.html dead December 15, 2008 The Ultimate Operation Time 15 December 1967 2008-11-19 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.Hoffman Jascha https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/us/19kantrowiztz.html Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, Cardiac Pioneer, Dies at 90 The New York Times 19 November 2008 2008-11-19 Neurosurgeons Jean Talairach and Gabor Szikla create the Talairach coordinates for brain mapping.In their Talairach Atlas. Arthur W. Toga Brain Warping https://books.google.com/books?id=8WdlWJepgWMC&pg=PA264 1998 Academic Press 978-0-08-052554-9 264 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.Mary Baines History http://www.stchristophers.org.uk/about/history St Christopher's 2012-08-08 Technology June 27 – The first automated teller machine, devised by John Shepherd-Barron, enters service, in London.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 978-0-14-102715-9 2006 Date unknown – The first hydraulic breaker "Hydraulikhammer HM 400" is invented by German company Krupp. Awards 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 February 24 – Brian Schmidt, Australian astrophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2011). February 27 – Jony Ive, British-American industrial designer. October 11 – Ardem Patapoutian, Armenian-American neurophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (2021). Deaths 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)Roger B. Chaffee American astronaut https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roger-B-Chaffee Encyclopedia Britannica 19 January 2021 en Gus Grissom (born 1926)Virgil I. Grissom American astronaut https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virgil-I-Grissom Encyclopedia Britannica 19 January 2021 en Ed White (born 1930).Edward H. White II American astronaut https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-H-White-II Encyclopedia Britannica 19 January 2021 en 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. References Category:20th century in science Category:1960s in science