Editing 1971 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* October 1 – [[Godfrey Hounsfield]]'s invention, [[X-ray computed tomography]], is first used on a patient with a cerebral [[cyst]] at [[Atkinson Morley Hospital]] in [[Wimbledon, London]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Beckmann|first=E. C.|title=CT scanning: the early days|doi=10.1259/bjr/29444122|journal=British Journal of Radiology|volume=79|issue=937|pages=5–8|year=2006|pmid=16421398}}</ref>
* Boston Women's Health Book Collective publishes ''[[Our Bodies, Ourselves]]'' in the U.S.
* E. G. L. Bywaters characterises [[adult-onset Still's disease]], a rare form of inflammatory [[arthritis]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bywaters|first=E. G. L.|title=Still's disease in the adult|journal=[[Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases]]|volume=30|issue=2|pages=121–33|date=March 1971|pmid=5315135|pmc=1005739|doi=10.1136/ard.30.2.121|url=}}</ref>
* [[Smallpox]] is eradicated from the [[Americas]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10798%3Aamericas-free-of-rubella&catid=740%3Anews-press-releases&Itemid=1926&lang=en|title=Americas region is declared the world's first to eliminate rubella|publisher=WHO|date=2015-04-30|access-date=2015-04-30|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518102827/http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10798%3Aamericas-free-of-rubella&catid=740%3Anews-press-releases&Itemid=1926&lang=en|archive-date=2015-05-18}}</ref>