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1987
1987 Supernova 1987A, Ian Shelton
24 February 1987 discovery of 4176 Sudek
23 April 1987 discovery of 6064 Holasovice
21 September 1987 discovery of 4177 Kohman
22 September 1987 discovery of 5324 Lyapunov
26 September 1987 discovery of 6066 Hendricks
29 September 1987 discovery of 30778 Döblin
27 October 1987 discovery of 6000 United Nations
17 November 1987 discovery of 13014 Hasslacher
29 November 1987 discovery of 5372 Bikki
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19 March 1987 Death of Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie
27 May 1987 Death of John Howard Northrop
26 August 1987 Death of Georg Wittig
13 October 1987 Death of Walter Houser Brattain
20 October 1987 Death of Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov in Moscow, Russia
2 December 1987, Death of Luis Federico Leloir
2 December 1987, Death of Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, in Moscow, Russia
1987 Death of Bengt Strömgren
1987 Death of Leo Goldberg
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Nobel Prize
Physics to Johannes Georg Bednorz and Karl Alex Muller for their important breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials.
Chemistry to Donald James Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles John Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"
Physiology or Medicine: to Susumu Tonegawa "for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity"
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