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] Computer science
- November 20 – Microsoft Windows operating system released.
[edit] Environment
- May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole.[1][2][3]
[edit] Exploration
- September 1 – The wreck of RMS Titanic (1912) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard (WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel (Ifremer) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.[4][5]
[edit] Mathematics
- September - Dennis Sullivan publishes proof of the No wandering domain theorem.[6]
- December – Publication of the ATLAS of Finite Groups.
[edit] Medicine
- February 19 – Artificial heart patient William Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
- March 4 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since this date for blood supply.
- Publication of a classified bibliography of 3500 reports on controlled trials in perinatal medicine published since 1940.[7]
- New York-based neurologist Oliver Sacks publishes The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.
[edit] Physics
[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
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[edit] Deaths
- March 10 – C. B. van Niel (b. 1897), Dutch American microbiologist.
- April 20 – Charles Richter (b. 1900), American geophysicist and inventor.
- July 20 – Bruno de Finetti (b. 1906), Italian statistician.
- September 6 – Rodney Porter (b. 1917), English biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- September 7 – George Pólya (b. 1887), Hungarian mathematician.
- September 10 – Ernst Öpik (b. 1893), Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist.
- October 22 – Thomas Townsend Brown (b. 1905), American physicist.
- November 24 – László Bíró (b. 1899), Hungarian inventor.
[edit] References
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Farman, J. C.; Gardiner, B. G.; Shanklin, J. D. (1985). "Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx/NOx interaction". Nature 315 (6016): 207–10. Bibcode 1985Natur.315..207F. doi:10.1038/315207a0. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v315/n6016/pdf/315207a0.pdf.
- ^ Zehr, Stephen C. (1994). "Accounting for the Ozone Hole: Scientific Representations of an Anomaly and Prior Incorrect Claims in Public Settings". The Sociological Quarterly 35: 603–19. doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.1994.tb00419.x. JSTOR 4121521.
- ^ Alfred, Randy (2008-02-09). "Sept. 2, 1985: Hey, Everyone, We Found the Titanic". Wired. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_0902. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
- ^ Ballard, Robert D. (December 1985). "How We Found the Titanic". National Geographic 168 (6): 696–718.
- ^ Sullivan, Dennis (1985). "Quasiconformal homeomorphisms and dynamics I. Solution of the Fatou-Julia problem on wandering domains". Annals of Mathematics 122 (2): 401–418. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1971308. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ^ "About the Cochrane Library". The Cochrane Library. http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#ABOUT. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
