Fulwyler develops 1st particle separator.

Starzl performs 1st successful liver transplant.

Sternbach discovers Diazepam (Valium).

Eccles, Hodgkin & Huxley: Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for discoveries concerning ionic mechanisms involved in excitation & inhibition in the peripheral & central nerve cell membrane.

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