Overview of the events of 1986 in science
The year 1986 in science and technology involved many significant events, some not listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration [ edit ] Crew of NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L January 7 – Rex Wailes (b. 1901 ), English engineer and historian of technology.
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April 22 – Dame Honor Fell (b. 1900 ), English biologist.
July 6 – William Rashkind (b. 1922 ), American cardiologist .
July 21 – Zhang Yuzhe (b. 1902 ), Chinese astronomer .
October 22 – Albert Szent-Györgyi (b. 1893 ), Hungarian physiologist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
October 31 – Edward Adelbert Doisy (b. 1893 ), American biochemist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
June 7 – Robert S. Mulliken (b. 1896 ), American physicist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
November 25 – Sir Ivan Magill (b. 1888 ), British anesthesiologist .
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^ Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). "Immunotherapy: past, present and future" . Nature Medicine . 9 (3): 269–277. doi :10.1038/nm0303-269 . PMID 12612576 . S2CID 9745527 .
^ Barker, David; Osmond, C. (1986). "Infant mortality, childhood nutrition and ischaemic heart disease in England and Wales". The Lancet . 327 (8489). London: 1077–1081. doi :10.1016/s0140-6736(86)91340-1 . PMID 2871345 . S2CID 35375657 .
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^ Ribet, Ken (1990). "On modular representations of Gal(Q /Q ) arising from modular forms" (PDF) . Inventiones Mathematicae . 100 (2): 431–471. Bibcode :1990InMat.100..431R . doi :10.1007/BF01231195 . hdl :10.1007/BF01231195 . S2CID 120614740 .
^ Frey, Gerhard (1986). "Links between stable elliptic curves and certain Diophantine equations". Annales Universitatis Saraviensis. Series Mathematicae . 1 (1): iv+40. ISSN 0933-8268 . MR 0853387 .
^ Paulson, L. C. (1986). "Natural deduction as higher-order resolution". The Journal of Logic Programming . 3 (3): 237–258. arXiv :cs/9301104 . doi :10.1016/0743-1066(86)90015-4 . S2CID 27085090 .
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