1984 in science
The year 1984 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy and space exploration
Biology
Chemistry and Physics
Technology
- July 21 – In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.
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References
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- ^ Greider, Carol W.; Blackburn, Elizabeth H. (December 1985). "Identification of a Specific Telomere Terminal Transferase Activity in Tetrahymena Extracts". Cell 43 (2:1): 405–13. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(85)90170-9. PMID 3907856. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6WSN-4C899SK-5D-1&_cdi=7051&_user=126524&_pii=0092867485901709&_origin=&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F1985&_sk=999569997.7998&view=c&wchp=dGLzVzb-zSkzS&md5=fc8daa4c87773575a84f5c654fc5c602&ie=/sdarticle.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
- ^ Kramer, P.; Neri, R. (1984). "On periodic and non-periodic space fillings of Em obtained by projection". Acta Crystallographica A40 (5): 580. doi:10.1107/S0108767384001203.
- ^ Shechtman, D.; Blech, I.; Gratias, D.; Cahn, J. (1984). "Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry". Physical Review Letters 53 (20): 1951–4. Bibcode 1984PhRvL..53.1951S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.1951. http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v53/i20/p1951_1. Retrieved 2011-10-05.
- ^ Levine, Dov; Steinhardt, Paul Joseph (1984). "Quasicrystals: A New Class of Ordered Structures". Physical Review Letters 53 (26): 2477–80. Bibcode 1984PhRvL..53.2477L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.2477. http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v53/i26/p2477_1. Retrieved 2011-10-05.