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The year 1977 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Astronomy and space exploration 2 Medicine 3 Oceanography 4 Awards 5 Deaths 6 References

Astronomy and space exploration

• August 12 - The NASA Space Shuttle makes its first test free-flight from the back of a jetliner.
• August 20 - Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
• September 5 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
• 2060 Chiron, first of the outer solar system asteroids known as Centaurs, discovered by Charlie Kowal.
• Discovery of the Carina Dwarf galaxy by the UK Schmidt Telescope.

Medicine

• January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the "Legionnaires' disease."
• September 11 - The last "wild" infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia.¹

Oceanography

• Discovery of hydrothermal vent ecosystems near the Galapagos Islands

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck
  • Chemistry - Ilya Prigogine
  • Medicine - Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow
• Turing Award - John Backus

Deaths

• June 16 - Wernher von Braun (b. 1912), physicist and engineer.

References

1. ^ Reference supporting eradication in 1977: Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). "Immunotherapy: past, present and future" (PDF). Nature Medicine 9: 269–277. doi:10.1038/nm0303-269. http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v9/n3/full/nm0303-269.html&filetype=pdf. 

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