Science on the year of 1985 in history

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Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1984 fullerene	science	fullerene (chemistry) The fullerene Buckminsterfullerene (C₆₀) is first intentionally prepared by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University in the United States.
30 Nov 1984 Jean-Pierre Serre	science	Jean-Pierre Serre (mathematics) Jean-Pierre Serre provides partial proof that a Frey curve cannot be modular, showing that a proof of the semistable case of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture would imply Fermat's Last Theorem.
30 Nov 1984 Leonard Adleman	science	Leonard Adleman (mathematics) Leonard Adleman, Roger Heath-Brown and Étienne Fouvry prove that the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem holds for infinitely many odd primes p.
30 Nov 1984 controlled trials	science	controlled trials (medicine) Publication of a classified bibliography of 3500 reports on controlled trials in perinatal medicine published since 1940.
30 Nov 1984 neurologist	science	neurologist (medicine) New York-based neurologist Oliver Sacks publishes The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.
30 Nov 1984 Portugal	science	Portugal (physics) Portugal joins CERN.
30 Nov 1984 Atomic force microscope	science	Atomic force microscope (technology) Atomic force microscope invented by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christopher Berger.
30 Nov 1984 Turing Award	science	Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – Richard Karp – for his work on computational complexity theory
01 Jan 1985 mobile phone	science	mobile phone (technology) The first British mobile phone calls are made.
19 Feb 1985 Artificial heart	science	Artificial heart (medicine) Artificial heart patient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
01 Mar 1985 Louis de Branges de Bourcia	science	Louis de Branges de Bourcia (mathematics) Louis de Branges de Bourcia publishes proof of de Branges's theorem.
01 Mar 1985 Joshua Silver	science	Joshua Silver (medicine) May – Joshua Silver develops an adjustable corrective lens.
04 Mar 1985 Food and Drug Administration	science	Food and Drug Administration (medicine) The United States Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since this date for testing all U.S. blood donations.
10 Mar 1985 C. B. van Niel	science	death C. B. van Niel C. B. van Niel (b. 1897), Dutch American microbiologist.
15 Mar 1985 Internet	science	Internet (computer science) The first commercial Internet domain name, in the top-level domain .com, is registered in the name symbolics.com by Symbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
22 Mar 1985 International ozone agreement	science	International ozone agreement In 1985, the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer was adopted and opened for signature. It entered into force on 22 Sep 1988 and established that secretariat functions would be carried out by the United Nations Environment Programme. Control of ozone-depleting substances was needed because ecological and health damage results from a depleted ozone layer due to more UV-B radiation reaching the Earth's surface. Results include increased rates of skin cancers and eye cataracts, reduced plant and fishing yields from adverse effects on terrestrial and ocean ecosystems, weakened immune systems, and more damage to plastics. The subsequent Montreal Protocol established specific limits to production
20 Apr 1985 Charles Richter	science	death Charles Richter Charles Richter (b. 1900), American geophysicist and inventor.
25 Apr 1985 Francis P. Shepard	science	death Francis P. Shepard Died 25 Apr 1985 at age 87 (born 10 May 1897). Fraancis Parker Shepard was an American marine geologist who studied submarine canyons, coastal processes and features, submerged deltas, sea-level changes and continental shelves, all of which he preferred rather than deep-ocean geology. His work off the California coast near La Jolla pioneered Pacific marine geology. Although his early career began with the study of structural geology, with field trips in the Rocky Mountains leading to a Ph.D. in 1922. The next year, his father, head of Shepard Steamship Line and an avid sailor, offered the use of his yacht. Thereby, Shepard's lifetime interests shifted to marine geology. When the surface sediment samples he collected from the continental coast off the New England coast did not match what theory predicted, in 1932, he published his observations and offered new interpretations, even challenging existing ideas.
16 May 1985 British Antarctic Survey	science	British Antarctic Survey (environment) Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole.
20 Jul 1985 Bruno de Finetti	science	death Bruno de Finetti Bruno de Finetti (b. 1906), Italian statistician.
31 Aug 1985 Frank Macfarlane Burnet	science	death Frank Macfarlane Burnet Frank Macfarlane Burnet (b. 1899), Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
01 Sep 1985 The wreck of the RMS Titanic	science	The wreck of the RMS Titanic (exploration) The wreck of the RMS Titanic (1912) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard (WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel (Ifremer) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.
01 Sep 1985 Dennis Sullivan	science	Dennis Sullivan (mathematics) Dennis Sullivan publishes proof of the No wandering domain theorem.
06 Sep 1985 Rodney Porter	science	death Rodney Porter Rodney Porter (b. 1917), English biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
07 Sep 1985 George Pólya	science	death George Pólya George Pólya (b. 1887), Hungarian mathematician.
10 Sep 1985 Ernst Öpik	science	death Ernst Öpik Ernst Öpik (b. 1893), Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist.
13 Oct 1985 Fermi Accelerator	science	Fermi Accelerator In 1985, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, the first observation was made of proton-antiproton collisions by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) with 1.6 TeV center-of-mass energy. In all, 23 of collisions were detected in Oct 1985. The Tevatron, four miles in circumference (originally named the Energy Doubler), is the world's highest-energy particle accelerator. Its low-temperature cooling system was the largest ever built when it was placed in operation in 1983. Its 1,000 superconducting magnets are cooled by liquid helium to -268 deg C (-450 deg F). Fermilab (originally named the National Accelerator Laboratory) was commissioned by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, in a bill signed by President Johnson on 21 Nov 1967.
17 Oct 1985 House of Lords	science	House of Lords (medicine) The British House of Lords decides the legal case of Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority which sets the significant precedent of Gillick competence, i.e. that a child of 16 or under may be competent to consent to contraception or – by extension – other medical treatment without requiring parental permission or knowledge.
22 Oct 1985 Thomas Townsend Brown	science	death Thomas Townsend Brown Thomas Townsend Brown (b. 1905), American inventor.
20 Nov 1985 Infant heart transplant	science	Infant heart transplant In 1985, a successful heart transplant to a 4-day-old infant, Eddie Anguiano known then as Baby Moses, was performed by Dr. Leonard Lee Bailey of the Loma Linda University Medical Center. Eddie had been born with the fatal heart defect hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and had only days to live. Luckily, the heart of a brain-dead baby became available. His was the third such transplant attempted. The previous two were unsuccessful, but Eddie thrived. By his 10th birthday, almost 300 other children at Loma Linda, 203 of them under six months old, had their faulty hearts replaced. Eddie celebrated his 21st birthday in 2006. In earlier work, Dr Bailey had transplanted a young baboon's heart into Baby Fae (26 Oct 1984).
20 Nov 1985 Microsoft Windows	science	Microsoft Windows (computer science) Microsoft Windows operating system released.
24 Nov 1985 László Bíró	science	death László Bíró László Bíró (b. 1899), Hungarian inventor.
25 Dec 1985 Dian Fossey	science	death Dian Fossey Dian Fossey (b. 1932), American primatologist (murdered).

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