1977 in science

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The year 1977 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

Contents

1 Astronomy and space exploration 2 Medicine 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

Astronomy and space exploration

• September 5 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
• 2060 Chiron, first of the outer solar system asteroids known as Centaurs, discovered by Charlie Kowal.

Medicine

• January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease."
• September 11 - The last "wild" infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia.^{[1] (http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/1977_in_science#fn_smallpox)}

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck
  • Chemistry - Ilya Prigogine
  • Medicine - Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow
• Turing Award - John Backus

Births

Deaths

• June 16 - Wernher von Braun (b. 1912), physicist and engineer.

References

1. ⇧ Reference supporting eradication in 1977: Reference: Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). Immunotherapy: past, present and future (http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v9/n3/full/nm0303-269.html&filetype=pdf). Nature Medicine 9, 269-277.

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