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The year 1987 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
Astronomy
- February 23 – .
- Asteroid 7816 Hanoi is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
- 10500 Nishi-koen is discovered.[1]
Biochemistry
- December – Yoshizumi Ishino discovers the DNA sequence of CRISPR.[2][3]
- Piotr Chomczynski and Nicoletta Sacchi publish their acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction protocol.[4][5]
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.
- Photoshop.
Genetics
- November 6 – Florida DNA fingerprinting.[6]
History of science
Mathematics
- Gödel's ontological proof of the existence of God is published posthumously.[7]
- The Chao Tang and Kurt Wiesenfeld.[8]
Medicine
- March 20 – The United States antiretroviral drug for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, zidovudine, also known as AZT (azidothymidine) or Retrovir.[9]
- May – The name chronic fatigue syndrome first appears in the medical literature.[10]
- May 11 – The first heart-lung transplanttakes place.
- August 31 – The FDA for the first time approves a statin, lovastatin.[11][12]
- September 5 - The first successful surgical separation of craniopagus twins is done by Dr. Ben Carson.
- December 29 – Prozacmakes its debut in the U.S.
Paleoanthropology
- January 1 – The 'Mitochondrial Eve' hypothesis is proposed.[13]
Paleontology
- First fossils of Argentinosaurus found.
Physics
- March 18 – high-temperature superconductors.
- Harry J. Lipkin names the pentaquark.[14]
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.[15]
- Varroa destructor, an invasive parasite of honeybees, is found in the United States.
Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- 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
- June 10 – James Maynard, English mathematician[16]
Deaths
- March 19 – Louis de Broglie (b. 1892), French physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1929).
- March 26 – hematologist.
- October 2 – 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 – astrophysicist.
- December 7 – plant physiologist.
References
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- PMID 2440339.
- S2CID 28653075.
- ^ "Gene Technology". Txtwriter.com. 1987-11-06. p. 14. Archived from the original on 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
- ISBN 0-19-514722-7.
- S2CID 7674321.
- ^ Cimons, Marlene (21 March 1987). "U.S. Approves Sale of AZT to AIDS Patients". Los Angeles Times. p. 1.
- 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
- PMID 15531285.
- S2CID 4285418.
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- ^ Newsweek 9 June 2008 p. 45.
- ^ Klarreich, Erica (2022-07-05). "A Solver of the Hardest Easy Problems About Prime Numbers: On his way to winning a Fields Medal". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2022-07-05.