1975 in science
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The year 1975 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy and space exploration
- April 19 - Aryabhata, India's first satellite, is launched using Soviet boosters.
- August 20 - Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
[edit] 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][2]
[edit] 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.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- February 14 - Julian Huxley (b. 1887), British biologist and author.
[edit] References
- ^ Kohler, G.; Milstein, C. (1975). "Continuous cultures of fused cells secreting antibody of predefined specificity". Nature 256 (5517): 495–497. PMID 1172191.
- ^ Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). "Immunotherapy: past, present and future" (PDF). Nature Medicine 9: 269–277.
