Overview of the events of 1967 in science
The year 1967 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Anthropology
Astronomy and space exploration
Biology
Cartography
Computing
Mathematics
Physics
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.[8]
- August – 1967 Marburg virus outbreak in West Germany leads to identification of Marburg virus.[9]
- 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.[10]
- 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.[11][12]
- 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.[13]
- Neurosurgeons Jean Talairach and Gabor Szikla create the Talairach coordinates for brain mapping.[14]
- 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.[15]
Technology
Awards
Births
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
- 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
- ^ "1967: The Naked Ape steps out". On This Day. BBC News. 1967-10-12. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
- ^ Hewish, A.; Bell, S. J.; Pilkington, J. D. H.; Scott, P. F.; Collins, R. A. (24 February 1968). "Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source". Nature. 217 (5130): 709–713. Bibcode:1968Natur.217..709H. doi:10.1038/217709a0. S2CID 4277613.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Acheson, David (2002). 1089 and All That. Oxford University Press. p. 106. ISBN 0-19-851623-1.
- ^ Langlands, Robert (1967), Letter to Prof. Weil.
- ^ Weinberg, S. (1967). "A Model of Leptons" (PDF). Physical Review Letters. 19 (21): 1264–1266. Bibcode:1967PhRvL..19.1264W. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.19.1264. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-12. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
- ^ Toda, Morikazu (1967). "Vibration of a chain with a non-linear interaction". Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 22 (2): 431–436. Bibcode:1967JPSJ...22..431T. doi:10.1143/JPSJ.22.431.
- ^ Favaloro, René G.; et al. (November 1971). "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. doi:10.1016/0002-9149(71)90104-4. PMID 5116978. S2CID 2643284.
- ^ Siegert, R.; et al. (2009). "Zur Ätiologie einer unbekannten, von Affen ausgegangenen menschlichen Infektionskrankheit". Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift. 92 (51): 2341–3. doi:10.1055/s-0028-1106144. PMID 4294540.
- ^ Nussenzweig, Ruth; Vanderberg, J.; Most, H.; Orton, C. (1967-10-14). "Protective Immunity produced by the Injection of X-irradiated Sporozoites of Plasmodium berghei". Nature. 216 (5111): 160–162. Bibcode:1967Natur.216..160N. doi:10.1038/216160a0. PMID 6057225. S2CID 4283134. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
- ^ Lyons, Richard D. (7 December 1967). "Heart Transplant Fails to Save 2-Week-old Baby in Brooklyn". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
- ^ "The Ultimate Operation". Time. 15 December 1967. Archived from the original on December 15, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
- ^ Hoffman, Jascha (19 November 2008). "Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, Cardiac Pioneer, Dies at 90". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
- ^ In their Talairach Atlas. Toga, Arthur W. (1998). Brain Warping. Academic Press. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-08-052554-9.
- ^ Baines, Mary. "History". St Christopher's. Retrieved 2012-08-08.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-102715-9.
- ^ "Roger B. Chaffee | American astronaut". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "Virgil I. Grissom | American astronaut". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "Edward H. White II | American astronaut". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 January 2021.