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30 Nov 1966
NRAO |
NRAO (astronomy and space ) NRAO builds the 36-foot Radio Telescope, later to become the ARO 12m Radio Telescope. |
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30 Nov 1966
Chimpanzee |
Chimpanzee (biology) Chimpanzee Washoe begins to learn American Sign Language. |
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30 Nov 1966
Arno Peters |
Arno Peters (cartography) Arno Peters reinvents the Gall orthographic equal-area projection. |
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30 Nov 1966
Errett Bishop |
Errett Bishop (mathematics) Errett Bishop publishes Foundations of Constructive Analysis, proving theorems in real analysis using constructive analysis. |
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30 Nov 1966
Malfatti circles |
Malfatti circles (mathematics) Michael Goldberg demonstrates that none of the original Malfatti circles are ever optimal. |
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30 Nov 1966
Thomas Starzl |
Thomas Starzl (medicine) Thomas Starzl performs the first successful human liver transplantation, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. |
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30 Nov 1966
myocardial infarction |
myocardial infarction (medicine) First use, in a case of myocardial infarction, of the intra-aortic balloon pump invented by Dr Adrian Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur. |
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30 Nov 1966
Neurosurgeons |
Neurosurgeons (medicine) Neurosurgeons Jean Talairach and Gabor Szikla create the Talairach coordinates for brain mapping. |
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30 Nov 1966
St Christopher's Hospice |
St Christopher's Hospice (medicine) 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. |
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30 Nov 1966
electroweak interaction |
electroweak interaction (physics) The electroweak interaction theory is introduced by Steven Weinberg. |
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30 Nov 1966
Toda lattice |
Toda lattice (physics) The Toda lattice is introduced by Morikazu Toda as a simple model for a one-dimensional crystal in solid state physics. |
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30 Nov 1966
Turing Award |
Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – Maurice Vincent Wilkes |