1985 in science

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

Contents

1 Exploration
2 Medicine
3 Awards
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 Organisations

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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