Biology
- August 7 - César Milstein and Georges Köhler report their discovery of how to use hybridoma cells to isolate monoclonal antibodies, effectively beginning the history of monoclonal antibody use in science.
- Living specimens of the Chacoan Peccary (Catagonus wagneri), previously known to scientists only from fossils, are identified in Paraguay.
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