Cochrane’s book Effectiveness and Efficiency : Random Reflections on Health Services published by the Nuffield Foundation is regarded as the harbinger for the Evidence Based Medicine movement & the Cochrane Collaboration.
Hounsfield & Cormack develop 1st CT scanner.
Chakrabarty develops genetically modified organisms, provoking temporary research moratoria in Australia until consequences better understood.
Anfinsen, Moore & Stein: Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on ribonuclease, its amino acid sequence, conformation, biological & catalytic activity & understanding connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule.
Edelman & Porter: Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for discovery of structure of antibody molecules.
Herzenberg et al at Stanford University develop & patent 1st fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS).
Sickle Cell gene 1st detected in a fetus.
