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<div>{{Year nav topic5|1982|science}}<br />
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The year '''1982 in science''' and technology involved many significant events, listed below.<br />
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==Astronomy==<br />
* March 10 – [[Syzygy (astronomy)|Syzygy]]: all 9 planets align on the same side of the [[Sun]].<br />
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==Biology==<br />
* September – First report of anti-human [[monoclonal antibody]] production.<ref>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.</ref><br />
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==Computer science==<br />
* First [[computer virus]], the [[Elk Cloner]], written by 15-year old [[Rich Skrenta]], escapes into the wild.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci989616,00.html|title=Elk Cloner|work=SearchSecurity|month=June|year=2004|accessdate=2012-01-28}}</ref><br />
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==History of science==<br />
* ''[[Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist]]'' is published by [[Russell McCormmach]]. McCormmach uses the novel to present a historiographic point meant to reinforce [[Thomas Kuhn]]'s conception of a non-linear scientific development.<br />
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==Mathematics==<br />
* Michael Freedman proves the [[Poincaré conjecture]] in dimensions equal to 4.<ref>{{cite book|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8|page=93}}</ref><br />
* [[Brazil]]ian [[mathematician]] Celso Costa gives a mathematical description of [[Costa's minimal surface]], the first embedded [[minimal surface]] discovered in more than a century.<ref>{{cite book|last=Costa|first=Celso|title=Imersões mínimas completas em <math>\mathbb{R}^3</math> de gênero um e curvatura total finita|year=1982}} Ph.D. Thesis, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro.</ref><br />
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==Medicine==<br />
* 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 lives for 112 days with the device.<br />
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==Psychology==<br />
*''[[The Foundations of Ethology]]'' is published by [[Konrad Lorenz]].<br />
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==Awards==<br />
*[[Fields Medal|Fields Prize in Mathematics]]: [[Alain Connes]], [[William Thurston]] and [[Shing-Tung Yau]]<br />
* [[Nobel Prize]]s<br />
** [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Kenneth G. Wilson]]<br />
** [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Aaron Klug]]<br />
** [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – [[Sune K. Bergström]], [[Bengt I. Samuelsson]], [[John R. Vane]]<br />
* [[Turing Award]] – [[Stephen Cook]]<br />
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==Births==<br />
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==Deaths==<br />
* April 9 – [[Robert Havemann]] (b. [[1910 in science|1910]]), [[Germans|German]] [[chemist]].<br />
* May 3 – [[Henri Tajfel]] (b. [[1919 in science|1919]]), [[Poles|Polish]]-born [[United Kingdom|British]] [[social psychologist]].<br />
* May 22 – [[Jay Laurence Lush]] (b. [[1896 in science|1896]]), [[United States|American]] livestock [[geneticist]].<br />
* June 12 – [[Karl von Frisch]] (b. [[1886 in science|1886]]), [[Austria]]n-born [[ethology|ethologist]] and winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].<br />
* July 29 – [[Vladimir K. Zworykin]] (b. [[1889 in science|1889]]), [[Russian American]] pioneer of television technology.<br />
* December 27 – [[Jack Swigert]] (b. [[1931 in science|1931]]), American [[astronaut]].<br />
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