The year 1987 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
. . . 1987 in science . . .
- February 23 – Supernova 1987a is observed, the first “naked-eye” supernova since 1604.
- Asteroid 7816 Hanoi is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
- 10500 Nishi-koen is discovered.[1]
- December – Yoshizumi Ishino discovers the DNA sequence of CRISPR.[2][3]
- Piotr Chomczynski and Nicoletta Sacchi publish their acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction protocol.[4][5]
- Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perlprogramming language via the comp.sources.misc newsgroup.
- HyperCard is released by Apple Inc., an early example of hypermedia which inspires the World Wide Web.
- Thomas Knoll and John Knoll develop the first version of Photoshop.
- November 6 – Florida rapist Tommy Lee Andrews is the first person to be convicted as a result of DNA fingerprinting.[6]
. . . 1987 in science . . .
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