1987 in science

none 1987 science 1987 The year 1987 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below. Astronomy February 23 – Supernova 1987a is observed, the first "naked-eye" supernova since 1604. Asteroid 7816 Hanoi is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa. 10500 Nishi-koen is discovered.Schmadel Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names 10 June 2012 Springer Science & Business Media 978-3-642-29718-2 740 https://books.google.com/books?id=aeAg1X7afOoC&pg=PA740 en Biochemistry December – Yoshizumi Ishino discovers the DNA sequence of CRISPR.Ishino Y. Shinagawa H. Makino K. Amemura M. Nakata A. Nucleotide sequence of the iap gene, responsible for alkaline phosphatase isozyme conversion in Escherichia coli, and identification of the gene product Journal of Bacteriology 169 12 5429–33 1987 3316184 213968 10.1128/jb.169.12.5429-5433.1987Zimmer Carl February 6, 2015 Breakthrough DNA Editor Born of Bacteria https://www.quantamagazine.org/crispr-natural-history-in-bacteria-20150206/ Quanta Magazine 2019-04-01 Piotr Chomczynski and Nicoletta Sacchi publish their acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction protocol.Chomczynski P. Sacchi N. Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction Analytical Biochemistry 162 1 156–159 1987 10.1016/0003-2697(87)90021-2 2440339Chomczynski P. Sacchi N. Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction: Twenty-something years on 10.1038/nprot.2006.83 Nature Protocols 1 581–585 2006 17406285 2 28653075 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. Thomas Knoll and John Knoll develop the first version of Photoshop. Genetics November 6 – Florida rapist Tommie Lee Andrews is the first person to be convicted as a result of DNA fingerprinting.Johnson George B. George B. Johnson Gene Technology / Genetic Engineering https://biologywriter.com/backgrounder/genetic-engineering/gepage14/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20100611151239/http://txtwriter.com/Backgrounders/Genetech/GEpage14.html 2010-06-11 2025-12-17 Dr. George Johnson's Backgrounders / BiologyWriter Txtwriter Inc. 14 "DNA Fingerprinting" History of science Robert V. Bruce publishes The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876. Mathematics Gödel's ontological proof of the existence of God is published posthumously.Kurt Gödel 1995 Ontological Proof Collected Works: Unpublished Essays & Lectures 3 388, 403–404 Oxford University Press 0-19-514722-7 The Abelian sandpile model, the first discovered example of a dynamical system displaying self-organized criticality, is published by Per Bak, Chao Tang and Kurt Wiesenfeld.Bak, P. Tang, C. Wiesenfeld, K. 1987 Self-organized criticality: an explanation of 1/ƒ noise Physical Review Letters 59 4 381–4 10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.381 10035754 1987PhRvL..59..381B 7674321 Medicine March 20 – The United States Food and Drug Administration for the first time approves an antiretroviral drug for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, zidovudine, also known as AZT (azidothymidine) or Retrovir.Cimons Marlene 21 March 1987 U.S. Approves Sale of AZT to AIDS Patients Los Angeles Times 1 0458-3035 Newspapers.com 404304689, 404307451, etc. 292550368 810288464 810290681, etc. May – The name chronic fatigue syndrome first appears in the medical literature.Buchwald Dedra Dedra Buchwald Sullivan John L. Komaroff Anthony L. May 1987 Frequency of 'Chronic Active Epstein-Barr Virus Infection' in a General Medical Practice http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/257/17/2303 Journal of the American Medical Association 257 17 2303–7 10.1001/jama.257.17.2303 3033338 2011-07-29 subscription May 11 – The first heart-lung transplant takes place. August 31 – The FDA for the first time approves a statin, lovastatin.Product Details for NDA 019643 : MEVACOR (LOVASTATIN) https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/results_product.cfm?Appl_Type=N&Appl_No=019643#3011 2025-12-17 Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations U.S. Food & Drug Administration Strength: 20MG [...] Product Number: 003; Approval Date: Aug 31, 1987Akira Endo The origin of the statins Atherosclerosis Supplements October 2004 5 3 125–30 15531285 10.1016/j.atherosclerosissup.2004.08.033 1567-5688 September 5 - The first successful surgical separation of craniopagus twins is done by Dr. Ben Carson. December 29 – Prozac makes its debut in the U.S. Paleoanthropology January 1 – The 'Mitochondrial Eve' hypothesis is proposed.Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution Cann, Rebecca L. Stoneking, Mark Wilson, Allan C. Allan Wilson (biologist) Nature 325 31–36 1 January 1987 10.1038/325031a0 6099 3025745 1987Natur.325...31C 4285418 Paleontology First fossils of Argentinosaurus found. Physics March 18 – Woodstock of physics, the marathon session of the American Physical Society's meeting featuring 51 presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors. Harry J. Lipkin names the pentaquark.H. J. Lipkin 1987 New possibilities for exotic hadrons — anticharmed strange baryons Physics Letters B 195 3 484–488 10.1016/0370-2693(87)90055-4 1987PhLB..195..484L Technology December 1 – Channel Tunnel digging commences. 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"December 2025 The cited source does not mention this name. (Both the claim and source were added in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1987_in_science&diff=589421833&oldid=584809580)), dies (in Florida).Adler Jerry June 9, 2008 With Daniel Stone In Washington, Anna Kuchment In New York And Paul Tolme In Arcata, Calif. The Race For Survival Newsweek 40–50 (see p. 45) 151 23 0028-9604 32480113. A179698670. 1211B0A833FDF790. 214251514. Varroa destructor, an invasive parasite of honeybees, is found in the United States. Awards Nobel Prizes Physics – J. Georg Bednorz, 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 mathematicianhttps://www.quantamagazine.org/number-theorist-james-maynard-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/ A Solver of the Hardest Easy Problems About Prime Numbers: On his way to winning a Fields Medal Erica Klarreich Quanta Magazine 2022-07-05 2022-07-05 Deaths March 19 – Louis de Broglie (b. 1892), French physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1929). March 26 – Gwyn Macfarlane (b. 1907), British hematologist. October 2 – Peter Medawar (b. 1915), British 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 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (b. 1914), Belarusian astrophysicist. December 7 – Helen Porter (b. 1899), English plant physiologist. 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