1965

Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann propose the Woodward-Hoffmann rules, which use the symmetry of molecular orbitals to explain the stereochemistry of chemical reactions.

1 April 1965, Death of Daniel Barbier in Marseilles, France

21 April 1965 Death of Sir Edward Victor Appleton

28 August 1965 Death of Giulio (Yoel) Racah

8 December 1965 Birth of Dean Benjamin McLaughlin , in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

1965 Death of Arthur Holmes

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Nobel Prize

Physics to Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard P. Feynman "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"

Chemistry: to Robert Burns Woodward "for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis"

Physiology or Medicine to François Jacob, André Lwoff and Jacques Monod "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"

Chronology

1964 - 1965 - 1966

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