1987 in science
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The year 1987 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
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.
Genetics
- November 6 – Florida rapist Tommy Lee Andrews is the first person to be convicted as a result of DNA fingerprinting.[1]
History of science
Mathematics
- Gödel's ontological proof of the existence of God is published posthumously.[2]
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.
Medicine
- March 20 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT.[3]
- May – The name chronic fatigue syndrome first appears in the medical literature.[4]
- May 11 – The first heart-lung transplant takes place.
- August 31 – The FDA for the first time approves a statin, lovastatin.[5][6]
- September 5 - The first successful surgical separation of craniopagus twins is done by Dr. Ben Carson.
- December 29 – Prozac makes its debut in the U.S.
Paleoanthropology
- January 1 – The 'Mitochondrial Eve' hypothesis is proposed.[7]
Technology
- December 1 – Channel Tunnel digging commences.
Zoology
Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- Physics – J. Georg Bednorz, Karl 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
Deaths
- March 19 – Louis de Broglie (b. 1892), French physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1929).
- March 26 – Gwyn Macfarlane (b. 1907), British hematologist.
- October 13 – Walter Houser Brattain (b. 1902), American physicist.
- October 20 – Andrey Kolmogorov (b. 1903), Russian mathematician.
- December 2 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (b. 1914), Belarusian astrophysicist.
- December 7 – Helen Porter (b. 1899), English plant physiologist.
References
- ↑ "Gene Technology". Txtwriter.com. 1987-11-06. p. 14. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
- ↑ Gödel, Kurt (1995). "Ontological Proof". Collected Works: Unpublished Essays & Lectures, Volume III. Oxford University Press. pp. 388, 403–404. ISBN 0-19-514722-7.
- ↑ Cimons, Marlene (21 March 1987). "U.S. Approves Sale of AZT to AIDS Patients". Los Angeles Times. p. 1.
- ↑ Buchwald, Dedra; Sullivan, John L.; Komaroff, Anthony L. (May 1987). "Frequency of 'Chronic Active Epstein-Barr Virus Infection' in a General Medical Practice". Journal of the American Medical Association 257 (17): 2303–7. doi:10.1001/jama.257.17.2303. PMID 3033338. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
- ↑ FDA Orange Book Detail for application N019643 showing approval for 20 mg tablets on August 31, 1987 and 40 mg tablets on December 14, 1988
- ↑ Endo, Akira (October 2004). "The origin of the statins". Atherosclerosis Supplements 5 (3): 125–30. doi:10.1016/j.atherosclerosissup.2004.08.033. ISSN 1567-5688. PMID 15531285.
- ↑ Cann, Rebecca L.; Stoneking, Mark; Wilson, Allan C. (1 January 1987). "Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution". Nature 325 (6099): 31–36. doi:10.1038/325031a0. PMID 3025745. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ↑ Newsweek 9 June 2008 p. 45.