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The year 1965 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- February 20 - Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
- March 23 - NASA launches Gemini 3 which is the United States' first two-person space flight took (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
- November 16 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe from Baikonur, Kazakhstan toward Venus (on March 1, 1966 it became the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet).
- November 26 - At the Hammaguira launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter space.
Psychology
- Evolution and Modification of Behavior is published by Konrad Lorenz.
Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
- Chemistry - Robert Burns Woodward
- Medicine - François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod
Births
Deaths
- August 28 - Giulio Racah (b. 1909), Israeli physicist.
- October 12 - Paul Hermann Müller (b. 1899), chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948.
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