1987 in science
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The year 1987 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- February 23 - Supernova 1987a is observed, the first "naked-eye" supernova since 1604.
- Asteroid 7816 Hanoi is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
- 10500 Nishi-koen is discovered.
[edit] Physics
- March 18 - Woodstock of physics, the marathon session of the American Physical Society’s meeting featuring 51 presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors.
[edit] Medicine
- March 20 - The Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT.
- May 11 - The first heart-lung transplant takes place
- December 29 - Prozac makes its debut in the US
[edit] Technology
- Canon introduces the EOS line of cameras with the EOS 650
- December 1 - Channel Tunnel digging commences
[edit] Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- Physics - J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alexander Müller
- Chemistry - Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
- Medicine - Susumu Tonegawa
- Turing Award - John Cocke
- Wollaston Medal for Geology - Claude Jean Allègre
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- March 19 - Louis-Victor de Broglie (b. 1892), physicist and winner 1929 of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- October 13 - Walter Houser Brattain (b. 1902), physicist.
- October 20 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (b. 1903), mathematician.
- December 2 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (b. 1914), astrophysicist.
