- 1987 in science
The year 1987 in
science andtechnology involved many significant events, some listed below.Astronomy
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February 23 -Supernova 1987a is observed, the first "naked-eye"supernova since1604 .
* Asteroid 7816 Hanoi is discovered byMasahiro Koishikawa .
*10500 Nishi-koen is discovered.Physics
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March 18 -Woodstock of physics , the marathon session of theAmerican Physical Society ’s meeting featuring 51 presentations concerning the science ofhigh-temperature superconductor s.Medicine
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March 20 - TheFood and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drugAZT .
*May 11 - The firstheart-lung transplant takes place
*December 29 -Prozac makes its debut in the USTechnology
* Canon introduces the EOS line of cameras with the EOS 650
*December 1 -Channel Tunnel digging commencesAwards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -J. Georg Bednorz ,K. 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 AllègreBirths
Deaths
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March 19 -Louis-Victor de Broglie (b. 1892),physicist and winner1929 of theNobel Prize in Physics .
*October 13 -Walter Houser Brattain (b. 1902),physicist .
*October 20 -Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (b. 1903),mathematician .
*December 2 -Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (b. 1914),astrophysicist .
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