The year 1982 in science and technology observed many events, some of which are included in the list below. What is science? There are different theories of what science is. ... Technology (Gr. ...

Astronomy

• March 10 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.

March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in Leap years). ... Syzygy can refer to any of several different things: Astronomy In astronomy, a syzygy (Greek: yoked together) is a situation where three celestial bodies are positioned along a straight line. ... A planet (from the Greek πλανήτης, planētēs which means wanderer or more forcefully vagrant, tramp) is a body of considerable mass that orbits a star and that produces no energy through nuclear fusion. ... A Sun is the star at the center of a solar system. ...

Biology

• September: First report of anti-human monoclonal antibody production. References: Greener, Mark (2005). MAbs Turn 30. The Scientist 19(3):14-16. Tseng S.C.; Jarvinen M.J.; Nelson W.G.; Huang J.W.; Woodcock-Mitchell J.; and Sun T.T. (1982). Correlation of specific keratins with different types of epithelial differentiation: monoclonal antibody studies. Cell 30(2):361-372. PMID 6183000. Woodcock-Mitchell J.; Eichner R.; Nelson W.G.; and Sun T.T. (1982). Immunolocalization of keratin polypeptides in human epidermis using monoclonal antibodies. Journal of Cell Biology 95(2pt1):256-269. PMID 6183275.

1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime... Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) are antibodies that are identical because they were produced by one type of immune cell, all clones of a single parent cell. ...

Computer science

• First computer virus, written by Rich Skrenta, escapes into the wild.

In computer security technology, a virus is a self-replicating program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents (for a complete definition: see below). ... Rich Skrenta is a computer programmer. ...

Medicine

• December 2 - At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he lived for 112 days with the device).

December 2 is the 336th day (337th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U) was established by Mormon leader Brigham Young. ... An artificial heart is a device that is implanted into the body to replace the original biological heart. ...

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Kenneth G. Wilson
  • Chemistry - Aaron Klug
  • Medicine - Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane
• Turing Award - Stephen Cook

Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American physicist. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. ... Aaron Klug (born Zelvas, Lithuania, August 11, 1926) is a Lithuanian-born British physicist and chemist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... Sune Karl Bergström (January 10, 1916 - August 15, 2004) was a Swedish biochemist. ... Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (born May 21, 1934) is a biochemist. ... Sir John Robert Vane (March 29, 1927 - November 19, 2004) was a British pharmacologist. ... The A.M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. ... Stephen A. Cook is a noted computer scientist. ...

Births

Deaths

• April 9 - Robert Havemann (b. 1910), chemist.