1965 in science

The year 1965 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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.