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30 Nov 1987
extrasolar planet |
extrasolar planet (astronomy and space ) Canadian astronomers Bruce Campbell, G. A. H. Walker and Stephenson Yang publish radial-velocity observations suggesting that an extrasolar planet orbits the star Gamma Cephei, although its existence is not confirmed until 2003. |
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30 Nov 1987
Asteroid 3994 Ayashi |
Asteroid 3994 Ayashi (astronomy and space ) Asteroid 3994 Ayashi is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa. |
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30 Nov 1987
4407 Taihaku |
4407 Taihaku (astronomy and space ) 4407 Taihaku is discovered. |
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30 Nov 1987
4539 Miyagino |
4539 Miyagino (astronomy and space ) 4539 Miyagino is discovered. |
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30 Nov 1987
NASA |
NASA (climatology) NASA climate scientist James Hansen uses the term global warming in testimony to the United States Congress bringing it to public attention. |
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30 Nov 1987
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (climatology) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is established. |
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30 Nov 1987
Photoshop |
Photoshop (computer science) The first version of the Photoshop graphics software, devised by Thomas Knoll, ships with Barneyscan image scanners. |
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30 Nov 1987
Patricia Bath |
Patricia Bath (medicine) Patricia Bath patents the Laserphaco Probe, a device "for ablating and removing cataract lenses". |
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30 Nov 1987
Stephen Hawking |
Stephen Hawking (publications) Stephen Hawking publishes A Brief History of Time. |
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30 Nov 1987
Turing Award |
Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – Ivan Sutherland |
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11 Jan 1988
I.I. Rabi |
death I.I. Rabi I.I. Rabi (born 1898), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for invention of the atomic beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of atoms and molecules. |
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24 Jan 1988
Charles Glen King |
death Charles Glen King Died 24 Jan 1988 at age 91 (born 22 Oct 1896). American biochemist who discovered vitamin C, an aid in the prevention of scurvy and malnutrition. After five years of painstaking research extracting components from lemon juice, in 1932, King isolated vitamin C. Its structure was quickly determined and it was synthesized by scientists such as Haworth and Reichstein in 1933. Also known as ascorbic acid, (a- = not, without; scorbus = scurvy), vitamin C is a colourless crystalline water-soluble vitamin found especially in citrus fruits and green vegetables. Most organisms synthesize it from glucose but man and other primates and various other species must obtain it from their diet. It is required for the maintenance of healthy connective tissue; deficiency leads to scurvy. Vitamin C is readily destroyed by heat and light. |
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15 Feb 1988
Richard Feynman |
death Richard Feynman Richard Feynman (born 1918), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics. |
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12 Apr 1988
Genetically engineered mouse |
Genetically engineered mouse In 1988, the first U.S. patent was issued on a mammal life form to Harvard scientists Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart for a genetically engineered mouse (No. 4,736,866). The Oncomouse was altered to be highly susceptible to breast cancer. It was called the product of the year by a major financial magazine. Although the patent is owned by Harvard Medical School, because it was developed with funding from DuPont, an earlier commercialization arrangement leaves DuPont entitled to exclusive license of the patent. DuPont has claimed patent protection on any anticancer product ever derived from the mice. The first patent for a life form was issued on 31 Mar 1981 for a genetically engineered bacterium. |
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01 May 1988
Chronic fatigue syndrome |
Chronic fatigue syndrome (medicine) The initial case definition of Chronic fatigue syndrome (the "Holmes definition") is published, displacing the name Chronic Epstein-Barr virus syndrome. |
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08 May 1988
Robert A. Heinlein |
death Robert A. Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein (born 1907), "hard" science fiction author |
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25 May 1988
Ernst Ruska |
death Ernst Ruska Ernst Ruska (born 1906), Nobel Prize Physicist |
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03 Oct 1988
Sir Alec Issigonis |
death Sir Alec Issigonis Died 3 Oct 1988 at age 81 (born 18 Nov 1906). Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis was a Turkish-British engineer who was the designer of the Mini car, a landmark in automotive design when the British Motor Corporation introduced the Morris Mini-Minor on 26 Aug 1959. It was only 10 ft long, yet seated four passengers, and one of the lowest priced cars on the market. To save space, the engine was mounted transversely, and it had all-independent suspension. Issigonis believed that “when you're designing a new car for production, never, never copy the opposition.” Thus the Mini looked like no other car, provided a vehicle that carried the greatest payload in the smallest practical space, and incorporated new engineering principles. It remains successful over five decades later because he built it from the start for fuel economy, fast acceleration, maneuverability and ease of parking. |
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09 Oct 1988
Felix Wankel |
death Felix Wankel Felix Wankel (born 1902), German mechanical engineer. |
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02 Nov 1988
Morris worm |
Morris worm (computer science) The Morris worm is unleashed on the Internet. |
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15 Nov 1988
Soviet Union |
Soviet Union (astronomy and space ) In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on her maiden orbital spaceflight (this was the first and last space flight for the shuttle). |
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21 Dec 1988
Nikolaas Tinbergen |
death Nikolaas Tinbergen Nikolaas Tinbergen (born 1907), Dutch-born ethologist, ornithologist and Nobel Prize laureate. |
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