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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

[edit] Exploration

• September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Births

[edit] 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.

[edit] Organisations

• Portugal joins CERN.