The year 1985 in science and technology observed many events, some of which are included in the list below.

Exploration

• September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

Medicine

• February 19 - Artificial heart patient William Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
• March 4- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since on U.S'. blood supply.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Klaus von Klitzing - for his discovery of the quantization of electrical resistance
  • Chemistry - Herbert A Hauptman, Jerome Karle
  • Medicine - Michael S Brown, Joseph L Goldstein
• Turing Award - Richard Karp - for his work on computational complexity theory

Births

Deaths

• April 20 - Charles Richter (b. 1900), geophysicist and inventor.
• September 10 - Ernst Öpik (b. 1893), Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist.
• October 22 - Thomas Townsend Brown (b. 1905), physicist.