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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 --------- 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 --- 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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