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ASTRONOMY
February 23
-
Supernova 1987a
is observed, the first "naked-eye" supernova since
1604
.
MEDICINE
March 20
- The
Food And Drug Administration
approves anti-
AIDS
drug
AZT
.
May 11
- The first heart-lung transplant takes place
December 29
-
Prozac
® makes its debut in the US
TECHNOLOGY
Canon
introduces the
EOS
line of cameras with the
EOS 650
December 1
-
Channel Tunnel
digging commences
AWARDS
Nobel Prizes
---
Physics
-
J. Georg Bednorz
,
K. 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
DEATHS
March 19
-
Louis-Victor De Broglie
(b.
1892
),
Physicist
and winner
1929
of the
Nobel Prize In Physics
.
October 13
-
Walter Houser Brattain
(b.
1902
),
Physicist
.
October 20
-
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
(b.
1903
),
Mathematician
.
December 2
-
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
(b.
1914
),
Astrophysicist
.
