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1966
1966 — Stephen Hawking and George Ellis show that any plausible general relativistic cosmology is singular
1966 — James Peebles shows that the hot Big Bang predicts the correct helium abundance
Hotosi Nozaki and Ryoji Noyori discovered the first example of asymmetric catalysis (hydrogenation) using a structurally well-defined chiral transition metal complex.
1966 Beam Cooling (Hadrons) with electrons invented by Gersh Itshkovich (Andrei Mikhailovich) Budker
18 December 1966 discovery of Epimetheus
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1 March 1966 Death of Friedrich Georg Houterman in Bern, Switzerland
20 June 1966 Death of Georges F. Lemaître
2 November 1966 Death of Peter Joseph William Debye
1966 Death of György Hevesy
1966 Death of Mikhail Fedorovich Subbotin
1966 Death of Arthur Robert Hogg
Fields Medal
Nobel Prize
Physics to Alfred Kastler "for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms"
Chemistry to Robert S. Mulliken "for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method"
Physiology or Medicine to Peyton Rous "for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses" and to Charles Brenton Huggins "for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer"
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