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1985
Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discover fullerenes, a class of large carbon molecules superficially resembling the geodesic dome designed by architect R. Buckminster Fuller
Automatic DNA sequencer , Leroy Hood and Lloyd Smith
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15 April 1985 discovery of 4175 Billbaum
21 April 1985 discovery of 5318 Dientzenhofer
13 May 1985 discovery of 7051 Sean
15 September 1985 discovery of 5319 Petrovskaya
22 September 1985 discovery of 5369 Virgiugum
14 November 1985 discovery of 5320 Lisbeth and 5321 Jagras
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9 September 1985 Death of Paul John Flory
29 September 1985 Death of Beniamin Egishevich Markarian,in Yerevan, Armenia
1985 Death of Paul Harteck
1985 Death of John Franklin Enders
1985 Death of Rodney Porter
Nobel Prize
Physics to Klaus von Klitzing "for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect"
Chemistry to Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle "for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures"
Physiology or Medicine: to Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism"
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