Science on the year of 1977 in history

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Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1976 2060 Chiron	science	2060 Chiron (astronomy and space ) 2060 Chiron, first of the outer solar system asteroids known as Centaurs, discovered by Charlie Kowal.
30 Nov 1976 Carina Dwarf	science	Carina Dwarf (astronomy and space ) Discovery of the Carina Dwarf galaxy by the UK Schmidt Telescope.
30 Nov 1976 genome	science	genome (biology) The first complete genome is sequenced - a tiny bacterium-infecting virus called Phi X 174, with just 11 genes, and a little over 5000 base pairs.
30 Nov 1976 Carl Woese	science	Carl Woese (biology) Carl Woese and George E. Fox classify archaea as a new, separate domain of life.
30 Nov 1976 TRS-80	science	TRS-80 (computer science) August 3 - The TRS-80 Model I is announced at a press conference in New York City. Radio Shack begin sales in September, and despite a sales forecast of only 3,000 units per year, over 10,000 are sold in just one and a half months. Radio Shack will later develop an entire line of computers over the following 20 years.
30 Nov 1976 Atari 2600	science	Atari 2600 (computer science) September - The Atari 2600 home video game console is released.
30 Nov 1976 RSA algorithm	science	RSA algorithm (cryptography) RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography is described by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman at MIT.
30 Nov 1976 Roy Porter	science	Roy Porter (history of science) Roy Porter publishes The Making of Geology: Earth Science in Britain 1660-1815.
30 Nov 1976 hydrothermal vent	science	hydrothermal vent (oceanography) Discovery of hydrothermal vent ecosystems near the Galapagos Islands.
30 Nov 1976 sports bra	science	sports bra (technology) First general exercise sports bra invented by Lisa Lindahl and Polly Smith in the United States.
30 Nov 1976 Turing Award	science	Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – John Backus
01 Jan 1977 Commodore PET	science	Commodore PET (computer science) The Commodore PET is announced at Winter CES. The first units are delivered to customers in October; back-orders for the popular system last for months and in early 1978 Commodore discontinues the 4KB model. The PET is the launch computer for Commodore which will later gain prominence with the Commodore 64 in 1982, the single most produced home computer with over 17 million produced.
18 Jan 1977 Legionnaires' disease	science	Legionnaires' disease (medicine) Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the "Legionnaires' disease".
10 Mar 1977 Rings of Uranus	science	Rings of Uranus (astronomy and space ) Rings of Uranus discovered by Kuiper Airborne Observatory measurements of star occultation.
01 May 1977 Maryam Mirzakhani	science	birth Maryam Mirzakhani Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian-born mathematician
03 Jun 1977 Archibald Hill	science	death Archibald Hill Archibald Hill (b. 1886), English physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
05 Jun 1977 Apple II	science	Apple II (computer science) The first Apple II home computers (largely designed by Steve Wozniak) go on sale in the U.S., among the first successful mass-produced microcomputers.
16 Jun 1977 Wernher von Braun	science	death Wernher von Braun Wernher von Braun (b. 1912), German-born American physicist and engineer.
03 Jul 1977 Raymond Damadian	science	Raymond Damadian (medicine) Dr Raymond Damadian with Larry Minkoff and Michael Goldsmith perform the first magnetic resonance imaging body scan of a human.
04 Jul 1977 Thorne–Żytkow objects	science	Thorne–Żytkow objects (astronomy and space ) Thorne–Żytkow objects, a bizarre hybrid of red supergiants and neutron stars, are first theorised.
13 Jul 1977 New York blackout	science	New York blackout In 1977, a power failure blacked out New York. Starting at about 9 pm, four lightning strikes on high-voltage transmission lines within the course of about half-an-hour knocked out electricity and plunged millions of residents of New York City into darkness. Unlike the calm during a similar blackout in 1965, the 1977 blackout erupted in chaos. The city was already in the midst of a financial crisis and high unemployment. Responding to the tension of the times, mobs set fires, smashed windows and hauled away food, clothing and appliances. It took 25 hours to restore power to the entire city. About 4,500 people were arrested during the riots, which resulted in damage estimated at $61 million.
12 Aug 1977 NASA	science	NASA (astronomy and space ) The NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its first test free-flight from the back of a jetliner.
15 Aug 1977 Ohio State University Radio Observatory	science	Ohio State University Radio Observatory (astronomy and space ) Ohio State University Radio Observatory, working on the SETI project, receives a strong narrowband radio signal from deep space; the event is named the Wow! signal for a notation made by researcher Jerry R. Ehman.
20 Aug 1977 Voyager program	science	Voyager program (astronomy and space ) Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
23 Aug 1977 First human-powered flight prize	science	First human-powered flight prize In 1977, Bryan Allen won the Kremer Prize for the first human-powered flight as he pedalled the Gossamer Condor for at least a mile at Schafter, California.
23 Aug 1977 Gossamer Condor	science	Gossamer Condor (technology) Gossamer Condor demonstrates that it is the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight by winning the Kremer prize. It was created by Paul MacCready and Peter Lissaman of AeroVironment and piloted by Bryan Allen at Minter Field in Shafter, California.
04 Sep 1977 Jean Rostand	science	death Jean Rostand Died 4 Sep 1977 at age 82 (born 30 Oct 1894). French biologist and historian who did research as an experimental biologist in amphibian embryology, artificial ovulation, the effect of cold on reproductive systems, parthenogenesis, teratogeny and anomalies of batrachians (the order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads). He was also known as a philosopher and a writer popularizing the science of evolutionary theory, genetics, entomology, and herpetology, as well as the history of science. Rostand was an outspoken critic of nuclear proliferation and the death penalty.
11 Sep 1977 smallpox	science	smallpox (medicine) The last "wild" infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia.
16 Sep 1977 percutaneous coronary intervention	science	percutaneous coronary intervention (medicine) The first percutaneous coronary intervention on a sentient patient is performed by cardiologist Andreas Gruentzig in Zurich.
20 Sep 1977 Petrozavodsk phenomenon	science	Petrozavodsk phenomenon (astronomy and space ) Petrozavodsk phenomenon observed in northern skies.
01 Dec 1977 Lockheed Have Blue	science	Lockheed Have Blue (technology) Lockheed Have Blue becomes the first stealth aircraft to fly.
16 Dec 1977 cochlear implant	science	cochlear implant (medicine) The first microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant, developed by Ingeborg Hochmair and Erwin Hochmair, is implanted.

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