- 1977 in science
The year 1977 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy and space exploration
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August 12 - TheNASA Space Shuttle makes its first test free-flight from the back of a jetliner.
*August 20 -Voyager program : TheUnited States launches theVoyager 2 spacecraft.
*September 5 -Voyager program :Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
*2060 Chiron , first of the outersolar system asteroid s known as Centaurs, discovered byCharlie Kowal .
* Discovery of theCarina Dwarf galaxy by theUK Schmidt Telescope .Medicine
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January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknownbacterium as the cause of the "Legionnaires' disease ."
*September 11 - The last "wild" infection ofsmallpox is reported inSomalia . [Reference supporting eradication in 1977: cite journal | last = Waldman | first = Thomas A. | date = 2003 | url = http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v9/n3/full/nm0303-269.html&filetype=pdf | format = PDF | title = Immunotherapy: past, present and future | journal = Nature Medicine | volume = 9 | pages = 269–277 | doi = 10.1038/nm0303-269 ]Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -Philip Warren Anderson ,Sir Nevill Francis Mott ,John Hasbrouck van Vleck
** Chemistry -Ilya Prigogine
** Medicine -Roger Guillemin ,Andrew V. Schally ,Rosalyn Yalow
*Turing Award -John Backus Deaths
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June 16 -Wernher von Braun (b. 1912),physicist andengineer .References
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