1982 in science

none 1982 science 1982 The year 1982 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below. Astronomy January 17 – Allan Hills A81005, the first lunar meteorite found on Earth, is discovered in the Allan Hills at the end of the Transantarctic Mountains by John Schutt and Ian Whillans during the ANSMET meteorite gathering expedition.Allan Hills A81005 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=1965 Meteoritical Society 2013-01-11Marvin Ursula B. The discovery and initial characterization of Allan Hills 81005: The first lunar meteorite Geophysical Research Letters 1983-01-01 10 9 775–778 10.1029/GL010i009p00775 1983GeoRL..10..775M Allan Hills A81005 http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/lmc/F2%20ALHA81005.pdf NASA 2013-01-11 Kevin Righter John GruenerThe Lunar Meteorite Compendium http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/lmc/ NASA 2013-01-11 Kevin Righter John Gruener March 10 – Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun. October 14 – Halley's Comet: First spotted in the sky after 70 year return. Biology September – First report of anti-human monoclonal antibody production. Greener Mark 2005 MAbs Turn 30 The Scientist 19 3 14–16 Tseng S.C. Jarvinen M.J. Nelson W.G. Huang J.W. Woodcock-Mitchell J. Sun T.T. 1982 Correlation of specific keratins with different types of epithelial differentiation: monoclonal antibody studies Cell 30 2 361–372 6183000 10.1016/0092-8674(82)90234-3 18786728 Woodcock-Mitchell J. Eichner R. Nelson W.G. Sun T.T. 1982 Immunolocalization of keratin polypeptides in human epidermis using monoclonal antibodies 10.1083/jcb.95.2.580 Journal of Cell Biology 95 2 256–269 6183275 2112943 Computer science January 7 – The Commodore 64 8-bit home computer is launched by Commodore International (released in August); it becomes the all-time best-selling single personal computer model.http://www.pagetable.com/?p=547 How many Commodore 64 computers were sold? pagetable 2013-03-25 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160306232450/http://www.pagetable.com/?p=547 2016-03-06 January 30 – First computer virus, the Elk Cloner, written by 15-year-old Rich Skrenta, is found in the wild.http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci989616,00.html Elk Cloner SearchSecurity 2012-01-28 June 2004 2011-01-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20110107111044/http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci989616,00.html dead It infects Apple II computers via floppy disk. July 9 – Sci-fi movie Tron is the first feature film to use computer animation extensively. Earth sciences December 13 – 1982 North Yemen earthquake, the first instrumentally recorded event to be detected on global seismograph networks. History of science Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist is published by Russell McCormmach. McCormmach uses the novel to present a historiographic point meant to reinforce Thomas Kuhn's conception of a non-linear scientific development. Mathematics Michael Freedman proves the Poincaré conjecture in dimensions equal to 4.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 93 Gerhard Frey draws attention to the property of the elliptic curve which becomes known as the Frey curve.Frey Gerhard Rationale Punkte auf Fermatkurven und getwisteten Modulkurven 1982 Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 331 185–191 Brazilian mathematician Celso Costa gives a mathematical description of Costa's minimal surface, the first embedded minimal surface discovered in more than a century.Costa Celso Imersões mínimas completas em de gênero um e curvatura total finita 1982 Ph.D. Thesis, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro. Alexander Merkurjev and Andrei Suslin prove the norm residue isomorphism theorem in Milnor K2-theory for the case n = 2 and ℓ arbitrary, with applications to the Brauer group. Medicine July 20 – Allen Hill and colleagues at the University of Oxford develop a glucose biosensor.Cass, A. E. G. Ferrocene-mediated enzyme electrode for amperometric determination of glucose Analytical Chemistry 56 1985 4 667–71 etal 10.1021/ac00268a018 6721151RSC honours Oxford University team behind diabetic breakthrough Royal Society of Chemistry http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2012/oxford-university-glucose-sensor-chemical-landmark.asp 2012-07-16 2014-10-10 September 9 – George Brownlee and colleagues at the University of Oxford publish their results of cloning human clotting factor IX.Nature 299 178–180 1982 10.1038/299178a0 Molecular cloning of the gene for human anti-haemophilic factor IX Choo, K. H. Gould, K. G. Rees, D. J. G. Brownlee, G. G. 6287289 5879 1982Natur.299..178C 1298041 November – Helen House, the world’s first children’s hospice, is set up by Sister Frances Dominica in Oxford, England.https://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2009/01/09/helen_house_feature.shtml The story of Helen House Emma Midgley 2009-09-09 BBC Berkshire 2013-09-07 December 2 – At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart; he lives for 112 days with the device. Janet Balaskas establishes and names the active birth movement.Janet Balaskas Active Birth Unwin London 1983 0-04-612033-5 Working Formulation adopted as a standard classification for non-Hodgkin lymphomas. The Therac-25, a computerised model of radiotherapy device for cancer treatment, enters production. Design faults, including race conditionss and poorly documented error reporting in its software, and lack of hardware interlocks, lead to six reported incidents of Therac-25 units administering excessive radiation doses, injuring patients and causing multiple deaths. Leveson Nancy G. Nancy G. Leveson Turner Clark S. 1993-07-01 An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents Computer 26 7 1841 IEEE Computer Society 10.1109/MC.1993.274940 1558-0814 0018-9162 74648480 9691171 2240099 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dr206s3 dmy-all Physics The Sakuma–Hattori equation is first proposed by Fumihiro Sakuma, Akira Ono and Susumu Hattori. Psychology The Foundations of Ethology is published by Konrad Lorenz. Awards Fields Prize in Mathematics: Alain Connes, William Thurston and Shing-Tung Yau Nobel Prizes Physics – Kenneth G. Wilson Chemistry – Aaron Klug Medicine – Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane Turing Award – Stephen Cook Deaths February 20 – Derek Jackson (b. 1906), British-born spectroscopist and steeplechase rider. March 25 – Rufus P. Turner (b. 1907), African American electronic engineer. April 9 – Robert Havemann (b. 1910), German chemist. May 3 – Henri Tajfel (b. 1919), Polish-born British social psychologist. May 22 – Jay Laurence Lush (b. 1896), American livestock geneticist. June 12 – Karl von Frisch (b. 1886), Austrian-born ethologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. July 29 – Vladimir K. Zworykin (b. 1889), Russian American pioneer of television technology. August 5 – John Charnley (b. 1911), English orthopaedic surgeon. December 27 – Jack Swigert (b. 1931), American astronaut. References Category:20th century in science Category:1980s in science