1987 in science - Definition

The year 1987 in science and technology

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.