Discovery of
NML Cygni, a red
hypergiant and the largest star known, at about 1,650 times the Sun's radius.
Biology
February 4 –
Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the
Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union and
Lysenkoist theories subjected to criticism as pseudoscience.[1][2]
November 5 – US president Lyndon Johnson’s science advisory committee sends him a report entitled Restoring the Quality of Our Environment, the introduction to which states: "Pollutants have altered on a global scale the
carbon dioxide content of the air and the
lead concentrations in ocean waters and human populations."[7]
January – Bryan Whitby and S. C. Cummins file a
United Kingdompatent application for mobile
ice cream producing equipment with the
soft serve units powered off the
ice cream van's drive mechanism (rather than a separate generator), which becomes a global standard.[19][20]
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