Science on the year of 1987 in history

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Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1986 Asteroid 7816 Hanoi	science	Asteroid 7816 Hanoi (astronomy) Asteroid 7816 Hanoi is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
30 Nov 1986 10500 Nishi-koen	science	10500 Nishi-koen (astronomy) 10500 Nishi-koen is discovered.
30 Nov 1986 Robert V. Bruce	science	Robert V. Bruce (history of science) Robert V. Bruce publishes The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876.
30 Nov 1986 Gödel's ontological proof	science	Gödel's ontological proof (mathematics) Gödel's ontological proof of the existence of God is published posthumously.
30 Nov 1986 Ben Carson	science	Ben Carson (medicine) September 5 - The first successful surgical separation of craniopagus twins is done by Dr. Ben Carson.
30 Nov 1986 Turing Award	science	Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – John Cocke
30 Nov 1986 Wollaston Medal for Geology	science	Wollaston Medal for Geology (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology – Claude Jean Allègre
01 Jan 1987 Mitochondrial Eve	science	Mitochondrial Eve (paleoanthropology) The 'Mitochondrial Eve' hypothesis is proposed.
23 Feb 1987 Supernova	science	Supernova In 1987, supernova 1987A in LMC was first seen. The brightest of the twentieth century, it was the first supernova visible with the naked eye since 1604.
23 Feb 1987 Supernova 1987a	science	Supernova 1987a (astronomy) Supernova 1987a is observed, the first "naked-eye" supernova since 1604.
18 Mar 1987 Woodstock of physics	science	Woodstock of physics (physics) Woodstock of physics, the marathon session of the American Physical Society’s meeting featuring 51 presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors.
19 Mar 1987 Louis de Broglie	science	death Louis de Broglie Louis de Broglie (b. 1892), French physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1929).
20 Mar 1987 Food and Drug Administration	science	Food and Drug Administration (medicine) The United States Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT.
26 Mar 1987 Gwyn Macfarlane	science	death Gwyn Macfarlane Gwyn Macfarlane (b. 1907), British hematologist.
11 May 1987 heart-lung transplant	science	heart-lung transplant (medicine) The first heart-lung transplant takes place.
19 May 1987 Keeping a head alive	science	Keeping a head alive In 1987, a patent for "keeping a head alive" was issued to Chet Fleming (U.S. No. 4,666,425). A cabinet provides physical and biochemical support for an animal's head severed from its body. Oxygenated blood and nutrients are circulated by means of tubes connected to arteries and veins that emerge from the neck. A series of processing components removes carbon dioxide and add oxygen to the blood. If desired, waste products and other metabolites may be removed from the blood, and nutrients, therapeutic or experimental drugs, anti-coagulants, and other substances may be added to the blood. After being thoroughly tested on research animals, the patent suggests it might also be used on humans suffering from various terminal illnesses.
17 Jun 1987 Dusky Seaside Sparrow	science	Dusky Seaside Sparrow (zoology) The last known purebred Dusky Seaside Sparrow, "Orange Band", dies in Florida.
03 Jul 1987 Transatlantic hot-air balloon crossing	science	Transatlantic hot-air balloon crossing In 1987, British millionaire Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand became the first to cross the Atlantic by hot-air balloon, named Virgin Atlantic Flyer. They jumped into the sea as their craft went down off the Scottish coast. They travelled a distance of 2,900 miles from from Sugarloaf Mountain, Maine, in 33 hours to set a new record for hot air ballooning. At the time, the balloon was the largest ever flown having 2.3 million cubic feet of capacity. Three years later, they crossed the Pacific in another balloon from Japan to Arctic Canada, a distance of 6,700 miles, breaking all existing records with speeds of up to 245 miles per hour.
31 Aug 1987 statin	science	statin (medicine) The FDA for the first time approves a statin, lovastatin.
13 Oct 1987 Walter H. Brattain	science	death Walter H. Brattain Died 13 Oct 1987 at age 85 (born 10 Feb 1902). Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist who shared (with John Bardeen and William B. Shockley) the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for investigating semiconductors (materials of which transistors are made) and for the development of the transistor. At college, he said, he majored in physics and math because they were the only subjects he was good at. He became a solid physicist with a good understanding of theory, but his strength was in physically constructing experiments. Working with the ideas of Shockley and Bardeen, Brattain's hands built the first transistor. Shortly, the transistor replaced the bulkier vacuum tube for many uses and was the forerunner of microminiature electronic parts.
13 Oct 1987 Walter Houser Brattain	science	death Walter Houser Brattain Walter Houser Brattain (b. 1902), American physicist.
20 Oct 1987 Andrey Kolmogorov	science	death Andrey Kolmogorov Andrey Kolmogorov (b. 1903), Russian mathematician.
06 Nov 1987 rapist	science	rapist (genetics) Florida rapist Tommy Lee Andrews is the first person to be convicted as a result of DNA fingerprinting.
01 Dec 1987 Channel Tunnel	science	Channel Tunnel (technology) Channel Tunnel digging commences.
02 Dec 1987 Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich	science	death Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (b. 1914), Belarusian astrophysicist.
07 Dec 1987 Helen Porter	science	death Helen Porter Helen Porter (b. 1899), English plant physiologist.
22 Dec 1987 Genetics	science	Genetics In 1987, U.S. scientists say a single gene may decide the sex of a baby.
29 Dec 1987 Record stay in space	science	Record stay in space In 1987, cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko return to Earth, ending his record 326-day space flight orbiting Earth in the Mir space station. The Soyuz spacecraft landed at a snow-covered site in Kazakhstan. His stay in space broke the previous Soviet record of 237 days. For comparison, the U.S. space endurance record is 87 days. Romanenko rocketed into orbit 6 Feb 1987 with flight engineer Alexander Laveikin who suffered heart problems five months later and was replaced with Alexander Alexandrov. They conducted 1,000 experiments in biology, medicine, materials processing and geology. Romanenko and Alexandrov used the giant Kvant (Quantum) astrophysics laboratory attached to the Mir to collect data from remote parts of the solar system. In a total of 3 space missions he accumulated 430.76 days in space.

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