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DNA is sequenced for the first time by Fred Sanger, Walter Gilbert, and Allan Maxam working independently. Sanger's lab sequence the entire genome of bacteriophage Φ-X174. 20 August 1977 lauch of Voyager 2 spacecraft 5 September 1977 lauch of Voyager 1 spacecraft -- 13 March 1977 discovery of 2646 Abetti 14 July 1977 discovery of 2607 Yakutia 14 August 1977 discovery of 2670 Chuvashia 18 August 1977 discovery of 3053 Dresden 20 August 1977 discovery of 7046 Reshetnev 21 August 1977 discovery of 2671 Abkhazia 11 September 1977 discovery of 3054 Strugatskia 23 September 1977 discovery of 5343 Ryzhov 12 October 1977 discovery of 3026 Sarastro 16 October 1977 discovery of 6055 Brunelleschi, 6056 Donatello and 6057 Robbia 17 October 1977 discovery of 7447 Marcusaurelius 12 November 1977 discovery of 2314 Field --- 5 February 1977 Death of Oskar Benjamin Klein in Stockholm, Sweden 17 May 1977 Death of Ronald Alexander McIntosh in Auckland, New Zealand 25 December 1977 Death of Maud Worcester Makemson, inWeatherford, Texas, USA, Death of 1 Bruce Charles Heezen 1977 Death of George Kenneth Green 1977 Death of Bruno Touschek 1977 Death of Gersh Itshkovich (Andrei Mikhailovich) Budker ... Nobel Prize Physics to Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck van Vleck "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems" Chemistry to Ilya Prigogine "for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures" Physiology or Medicine to Roger Guillemin and Andrew V. Schally "for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain" and to Rosalyn Yalow "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones"
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