1982 in science
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The year 1982 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
[edit] Biology
- September – First report of anti-human monoclonal antibody production.[1]
[edit] Computer science
- First computer virus, the Elk Cloner, written by 15-year old Rich Skrenta, escapes into the wild.[2]
[edit] History of science
- Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist is published by Russell McCormmach. McCormmach uses the novel to present a historiographic point meant to reinforce Thomas Kuhn's conception of a non-linear scientific development.
[edit] Mathematics
- Michael Freedman proves the Poincaré conjecture in dimensions equal to 4.[3]
- Brazilian mathematician Celso Costa gives a mathematical description of Costa's minimal surface, the first embedded minimal surface discovered in more than a century.[4]
[edit] Medicine
- December 2 – At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart; he lives for 112 days with the device.
[edit] Psychology
- The Foundations of Ethology is published by Konrad Lorenz.
[edit] Awards
- Fields Prize in Mathematics: Alain Connes, William Thurston and Shing-Tung Yau
- Nobel Prizes
- Turing Award – Stephen Cook
[edit] Births
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[edit] Deaths
- April 9 – Robert Havemann (b. 1910), German chemist.
- May 3 – Henri Tajfel (b. 1919), Polish-born British social psychologist.
- May 22 – Jay Laurence Lush (b. 1896), American livestock geneticist.
- June 12 – Karl von Frisch (b. 1886), Austrian-born ethologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- July 29 – Vladimir K. Zworykin (b. 1889), Russian American pioneer of television technology.
- December 27 – Jack Swigert (b. 1931), American astronaut.
[edit] References
- ^ Greener, Mark (2005). MAbs Turn 30. The Scientist 19(3):14–16. Tseng S.C.; Jarvinen M.J.; Nelson W.G.; Huang J.W.; Woodcock-Mitchell J.; and Sun T.T. (1982). Correlation of specific keratins with different types of epithelial differentiation: monoclonal antibody studies. Cell 30(2):361–372. PMID 6183000. Woodcock-Mitchell J.; Eichner R.; Nelson W.G.; and Sun T.T. (1982). Immunolocalization of keratin polypeptides in human epidermis using monoclonal antibodies. Journal of Cell Biology 95(2pt1):256–269. PMID 6183275.
- ^ "Elk Cloner". SearchSecurity. June 2004. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci989616,00.html. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
- ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
- ^ Costa, Celso (1982). Imersões mínimas completas em
de gênero um e curvatura total finita. Ph.D. Thesis, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro.
de gênero um e curvatura total finita.
