1982 - ANZSBT History Project

CDC 1^st uses term ‘acquired immune deficiency syndrome’ (AIDS) on 24 September, 1982.

William DeVries implants Jarvik-7 artificial heart into Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days.

Klug: Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of crystallographic electron microscopy & structural elucidation of nucleic acid-protein complexes.

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