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The year 1986 in science and technology observed many events, some of which are included in the list below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- January 24 - Voyager 2 space probe makes first encounter with Uranus
- January 28 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes on launch, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
- February 19 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station
- March 8 - Japanese spacecraft Suisei flies by Halley's Comet, studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.
Biology
- May: First reported methods for constructing a monoclonal antibody containing parts from mouse and human antibodies, a required first step toward the development of humanized antibodies used later as medical therapeutics (such as Infliximab).[1] (https://academickids.com:443/encyclopedia/index.php/1986_in_science#fn_antibody2)
Computer science
- April 3 - IBM unveils the PC Convertible, the first laptop computer.
Medicine
- FDA approval of the first monoclonal antibody drug, Muronomab-CD3 (also known as Orthoclone OKT3), for treatment of transplant rejection.[2] (https://academickids.com:443/encyclopedia/index.php/1986_in_science#fn_antibody)
Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- Turing Award - John Hopcroft, Robert Tarjan
- Wollaston Medal for Geology - Claude Jean Allègre
Births
Deaths
- January 28 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L:
- Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939)
- Michael J. Smith (b. 1945)
- Judith Resnik (b. 1949)
- Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946)
- Ronald McNair (b. 1950)
- Greg Jarvis (b. 1944)
- Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948)
- Zhang Yuzhe (b. 1902), Chinese astronomer.
References
- Jones P.T.; Dear P.H.; Foote J.; Neuberger M.S.; and Winter G. (1986). Replacing the complementarity-determining regions in a human antibody with those from a mouse. Nature 321(6069), 522-525. PMID 3713831.
- 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.