1987 in science
The year 1987 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
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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.
Biochemistry
- Piotr Chomczynski and Nicoletta Sacchi, publish their acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction protocol.[1][2]
Computing
- Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language via the comp.sources.misc newsgroup.
- HyperCard is released by Apple Inc., an early example of hypermedia which inspires the World Wide Web.
- Thomas Knoll and John Knoll develop the first version of Photoshop.
Genetics
History of science
Mathematics
- Gödel's ontological proof of the existence of God is published posthumously.[4]
- The Abelian sandpile model, the first discovered example of a dynamical system displaying self-organized criticality, is published by Per Bak, Chao Tang and Kurt Wiesenfeld.[5]
Medicine
- March 20 – The United States Food and Drug Administration for the first time approves an antiretroviral drug for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, zidovudine, also known as AZT (azidothymidine) or Retrovir.[6]
- May – The name chronic fatigue syndrome first appears in the medical literature.[7]
- May 11 – The first heart-lung transplant takes place.
- August 31 – The FDA for the first time approves a statin, lovastatin.[8][9]
- 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.[10]
Paleontology
- First fossils of Argentinosaurus found.
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.
- Harry J. Lipkin names the pentaquark.[11]
Technology
- December 1 – Channel Tunnel digging commences.
- Tinker Hatfield designs the Nike Air Max.
- Maglite introduces the 2AAA Mini Maglite flashlight, targeted for medical and industrial applications.
Zoology
- June 17 – The last known purebred dusky seaside sparrow, "Orange Band", dies in Florida.[12]
- Varroa destructor, an invasive parasite of honeybees, is found in the United States.
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
Births
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 2 – Peter Medawar (b. 1915), British immunologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1960).
- 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.
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References
- Chomczynski, P.; Sacchi, N. (1987). "Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction". Analytical Biochemistry. 162 (1): 156–159. doi:10.1016/0003-2697(87)90021-2. PMID 2440339.
- Chomczynski, P.; Sacchi, N. (2006). "Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction: Twenty-something years on". Nature Protocols. 1 (2): 581–585. doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.83. PMID 17406285.
- "Gene Technology". Txtwriter.com. 1987-11-06. p. 14. Archived from the original on 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
- Gödel, Kurt (1995). "Ontological Proof". Collected Works: Unpublished Essays & Lectures. 3. Oxford University Press. pp. 388, 403–404. ISBN 0-19-514722-7.
- Bak, P.; Tang, C.; Wiesenfeld, K. (1987). "Self-organized criticality: an explanation of 1/ƒ noise". Physical Review Letters. 59 (4): 381–4. Bibcode:1987PhRvL..59..381B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.381. PMID 10035754.
- 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. Bibcode:1987Natur.325...31C. doi:10.1038/325031a0. PMID 3025745.
- Lipkin, H. J. (1987). "New possibilities for exotic hadrons — anticharmed strange baryons". Physics Letters B. 195 (3): 484–488. Bibcode:1987PhLB..195..484L. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(87)90055-4.
- Newsweek 9 June 2008 p. 45.
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