1985 in science

1985 in science

The year 1985 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.

Exploration

* September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS "Titanic".

Medicine

* February 19 - Artificial heart patient William Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
* March 4- The Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration) approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then on blood supply.

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

Births

Deaths

* April 20 - Charles Richter (b. 1900), geophysicist and inventor.
* September 10 - Ernst Öpik (b. 1893), Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist.
* October 22 - Thomas Townsend Brown (b. 1905), physicist.

Organisations

*Portugal joins CERN.


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