Overview of the events of 1984 in science
The year 1984 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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May 5 – Itaipu Dam in South America begins to generate hydroelectricity .
July 21 – In Jackson , Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.
January 8 – Eerik Kumari (b. 1912 ), Estonian ornithologist and academic
February 21 – Anna Baetjer (b. 1899 ), American toxicologist .
April 8 – Pyotr Kapitsa (b. 1894 ), Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
April 15 – Grete Hermann (b. 1901 ), German mathematician and philosopher
May 13 – Stanislaw Ulam (b. 1909 ), Polish American mathematician .
May 24 – Sir Stanley Hooker (b. 1907 ), English aeronautical engineer .
August 6 – Abraham Lilienfeld (b. 1920 ), American epidemiologist .
August 11 – George Streisinger (b. 1927 ), Hungarian American molecular biologist, the first person to clone a vertebrate.
October 20 – Paul Dirac (b. 1902 ), English-born physicist .
November 20 – Charles C. Conley (b. 1933 ), American mathematician working on dynamical systems .
December 20 – Stanley Milgram (b. 1933), American social psychologist .
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^ Kramer, P.; Neri, R. (1984). "On periodic and non-periodic space fillings of Em obtained by projection". Acta Crystallographica . A40 (5): 580. Bibcode :1984AcCrA..40..580K . doi :10.1107/S0108767384001203 .
^ Shechtman, D.; Blech, I.; Gratias, D.; Cahn, J. (1984). "Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry" . Physical Review Letters . 53 (20): 1951–4. Bibcode :1984PhRvL..53.1951S . doi :10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.1951 .
^ Levine, Dov; Steinhardt, Paul Joseph (1984). "Quasicrystals: A New Class of Ordered Structures" . Physical Review Letters . 53 (26): 2477–80. Bibcode :1984PhRvL..53.2477L . doi :10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.2477 .
^ Nishida, H.; Takada, N.; Yoshimura, M.; Sonods, T.; Kobayshi, H. (1984). "Tetrakis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)borate: Highly Lipophilic Stable Anionic Agent for Solvent-Extraction of Cations". Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan . 57 (9): 2600–2604. doi :10.1246/bcsj.57.2600 .
^ Maeda, Nobuyo; Yang, Funmei; Barnett, Don R.; Bowman, Barbara H.; Smithies, Oliver (1984). "Duplication within the haptoglobin Hp 2 gene". Nature . 309 (5964): 131–135. Bibcode :1984Natur.309..131M . doi :10.1038/309131a0 . PMID 6325933 . S2CID 4368535 .
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