1975 in science
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The year 1975 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- August 20 - Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
Biology
- August 7 - César Milstein and Georges Köhler report their discovery of how to use hybridoma cells to isolate monoclonal antibodies, effectively beginning the history of monoclonal antibody use in science[1] (https://academickids.com:443/encyclopedia/index.php/1975_in_science#fn_antibody)[2] (https://academickids.com:443/encyclopedia/index.php/1975_in_science#fn_antibody2)
Computer science
- January - Altair 8800 is released, sparking the era of the microcomputer
- July 17 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
- 1975 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop a BASIC program for the Altair 8800. They form a company initially called Micro Soft; the company's name is later changed to Microsoft.
Awards
Births
Deaths
- February 14 - Julian Huxley (b. 1887), British biologist and author.
References
- Template:Anb Reference: Kohler, G.; Milstein, C. (1975). Continuous cultures of fused cells secreting antibody of predefined specificity. Nature 256(5517), 495-497. PMID 1172191
- Template:Anb Reference: Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). Immunotherapy: past, present and future (http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v9/n3/full/nm0303-269.html&filetype=pdf). Nature Medicine 9, 269-277.