The year 1985 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
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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
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Computer science
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Environment
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Exploration
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Mathematics
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Physiology and medicine
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Technology
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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).
References
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^ Kroto, H. W.; Heath, J. R.; O'Brien, S. C.; Curl, R. F.; Smalley, R. E. (1985). "C60 : Buckminsterfullerene". Nature . 318 (6042): 162–163. Bibcode :1985Natur.318..162K . doi :10.1038/318162a0 . S2CID 4314237 .
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-102715-9 .
^ Farman, J. C. ; Gardiner, B. G. ; Shanklin, J. D. (1985). "Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx /NOx interaction". Nature . 315 (6016): 207–10. Bibcode :1985Natur.315..207F . doi :10.1038/315207a0 . S2CID 4346468 .
^ Zehr, Stephen C. (1994). "Accounting for the Ozone Hole: Scientific Representations of an Anomaly and Prior Incorrect Claims in Public Settings". The Sociological Quarterly . 35 (4): 603–19. doi :10.1111/j.1533-8525.1994.tb00419.x . JSTOR 4121521 .
^ Alfred, Randy (2008-02-09). "Sept. 2, 1985: Hey, Everyone, We Found the Titanic " . Wired . Retrieved 2011-11-03 .
^ Ballard, Robert D. (December 1985). "How We Found the Titanic ". National Geographic . 168 (6): 696–718.
^ de Branges, Louis (1985). "A proof of the Bieberbach conjecture" . Acta Mathematica . 154 (1): 137–152. doi :10.1007/BF02392821 . MR 0772434 .
^ Sullivan, Dennis (1985). "Quasiconformal homeomorphisms and dynamics I. Solution of the Fatou-Julia problem on wandering domains". Annals of Mathematics . 122 (2): 401–418. doi :10.2307/1971308 . JSTOR 1971308 . S2CID 54186648 .
^ Adleman L. M.; Heath-Brown, D. R. (June 1985). "The first case of Fermat's last theorem". Inventiones Mathematicae . 79 (2). Berlin: Springer: 409–416. Bibcode :1985InMat..79..409A . doi :10.1007/BF01388981 . S2CID 122537472 .
^ "Contact – High Technology Lends a Hand/Science of the Soundstage" . Warner Bros. Archived from the original on 2001-03-04. Retrieved 2014-09-01 .
^ [1985] 3 All ER 402 (HL).
^ "About the Cochrane Library" . The Cochrane Library . Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2011-01-25 .
^ Gaines, Larry; Miller, LeRoy (2006). Criminal Justice In Action: The Core . Thomson/Wadsworth . ISBN 978-0-495-00305-2 .
^ "Mobiles rack up 20 years of use" . BBC News . 2005-01-01. Retrieved 2008-01-29 .
^ "UK's first mobile phone user remembers his call 30 years on" . BBC News . 2005-01-01. Retrieved 2005-01-01 .
^ Binnig, G.; Quate, C. F.; Berger, Ch. (1986-03-03). "Atomic Force Microscope" . Physical Review Letters . 56 (9): 930–933. Bibcode :1986PhRvL..56..930B . doi :10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.930 . PMID 10033323 .
^ Cepelewicz, Jordana (2022-07-05). "Hugo Duminil-Copin Wins the Fields Medal" . Quanta Magazine . Archived from the original on 2022-07-05. Retrieved 2022-07-05 .