1985 in science
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The year 1985 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Exploration
- September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
[edit] Medicine
- February 19 - Artificial heart patient William Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
- March 4- The Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration) approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then on blood supply.
[edit] Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Klaus von Klitzing - for his discovery of the quantization of electrical resistance
- Chemistry - Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
- Medicine - Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein
- Turing Award - Richard Karp - for his work on computational complexity theory
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- April 20 - Charles Richter (b. 1900), geophysicist and inventor.
- September 10 - Ernst Öpik (b. 1893), Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist.
- October 22 - Thomas Townsend Brown (b. 1905), physicist.
