1985 in science explained
The year 1985 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
- January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
Chemistry
Computer science
Environment
Exploration
Mathematics
Physics
Physiology and medicine
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- 1985. C60: Buckminsterfullerene. Nature. 318. 162–163. 10.1038/318162a0. 6042. 1985Natur.318..162K. Kroto. H. W.. Heath. J. R.. O'Brien. S. C.. Curl. R. F.. Smalley. R. E.. 4314237 .
- Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 978-0-14-102715-9. 2006.
- Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx/NOx interaction. 207–10. Farman, J. C.. Joe Farman. Gardiner, B. G.. Brian G. Gardiner (meteorologist). Shanklin, J. D.. Jon Shanklin. Nature. 1985. 10.1038/315207a0. 315. 6016. 1985Natur.315..207F. 4346468 .
- 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1994.tb00419.x. Stephen C.. Zehr. Accounting for the Ozone Hole: Scientific Representations of an Anomaly and Prior Incorrect Claims in Public Settings. The Sociological Quarterly. 35. 4. 603–19. 1994. 4121521.
- Sept. 2, 1985: Hey, Everyone, We Found the Titanic. Randy. Alfred. 2008-02-09. 2011-11-03. Wired.
- How We Found the Titanic. Robert D.. Ballard. . 168. 6. 696–718 . December 1985.
- de Branges. Louis. A proof of the Bieberbach conjecture. 10.1007/BF02392821. 772434. 1985. Acta Mathematica. 154. 1. 137–152. free.
- Dennis. Sullivan. 54186648. Quasiconformal homeomorphisms and dynamics I. Solution of the Fatou-Julia problem on wandering domains. Annals of Mathematics. 1971308. 122. 1985. 2. 401–418. 10.2307/1971308 .
- Adleman L. M. . Heath-Brown, D. R. . June 1985. The first case of Fermat's last theorem. Inventiones Mathematicae. 79. 2. 409–416. Springer. Berlin. 10.1007/BF01388981. 1985InMat..79..409A . 122537472 .
- Web site: Contact – High Technology Lends a Hand/Science of the Soundstage. Warner Bros.. 2014-09-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20010304211755/http://contact-themovie.warnerbros.com/cmp/technology.html. 2001-03-04.
- Web site: About the Cochrane Library. The Cochrane Library. 2011-01-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105124021/http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#ABOUT. 2011-01-05. dead.
- Book: Gaines, Larry. Miller, LeRoy. Criminal Justice In Action: The Core. 2006. Thomson/Wadsworth. 978-0-495-00305-2.
- News: Mobiles rack up 20 years of use. BBC News. 2008-01-29. 2005-01-01.
- News: UK's first mobile phone user remembers his call 30 years on. BBC News. 2005-01-01. 2005-01-01.
- Binnig, G. . Quate, C. F. . Berger, Ch. . Atomic Force Microscope. Physical Review Letters. 56. 9. 930–933. 1986-03-03. 1986PhRvL..56..930B. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.930. 10033323. free.
- Web site: Jordana. Cepelewicz. Hugo Duminil-Copin Wins the Fields Medal. Quanta Magazine. 2022-07-05. 2022-07-05. 2022-07-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20220705073201/https://www.quantamagazine.org/hugo-duminil-copin-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/. live.
- http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1985/7.html [1985<nowiki>] 3 All ER 402] (HL). which sets the significant precedent of Gillick competence, i.e. that a child of 16 or under may be competent to consent to contraception or - by extension - other medical treatment without requiring parental permission or knowledge.
Technology
Awards
Births
Deaths
- March 10 – C. B. van Niel (b. 1897), Dutch American microbiologist.
- April 20 – Charles Richter (b. 1900), American geophysicist and inventor.
- July 20 – Bruno de Finetti (b. 1906), Italian statistician.
- August 5 – Arnold Wilkins (b. 1907), English pioneer of radar.
- August 31 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet (b. 1899), Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- September 6 – Rodney Porter (b. 1917), English biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- September 7 – George Pólya (b. 1887), Hungarian mathematician.
- September 10 – Ernst Öpik (b. 1893), Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist.
- October 22 – Thomas Townsend Brown (b. 1905), American inventor.
- November 24 – László Bíró (b. 1899), Hungarian inventor.
- December 21 – Elliott Organick (b. 1925), American computer scientist and educator
- c. December 26 – Dian Fossey (b. 1932), American primatologist (murdered).
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