Editing 1977 in science (section)

== Medicine ==
* January 18 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the "[[Legionnaires' disease]]".
* July 3 – Dr [[Raymond Damadian]] with Larry Minkoff and Michael Goldsmith perform the first [[magnetic resonance imaging]] body scan of a human.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Damadian, R. |author2=Goldsmith, M. |author3=Minkoff, L. |year=1977|title=NMR in cancer: XVI. Fonar image of the live human body|journal=Physiological Chemistry and Physics|volume=9|issue=1 |pages=97–100|pmid=909957 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Hinshaw, D. S. |author2=Bottomley, P. A. |author3=Holland, G. N. |year=1977|title=Radiographic thin-section image of the human wrist by nuclear magnetic resonance|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=270|pages=722–723|doi=10.1038/270722a0|issue=5639|bibcode=1977Natur.270..722H|pmid=593393|s2cid=4183336 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=First MRI and ultrasound scanning |publisher=Benjamin S. Beck |url=http://benbeck.co.uk/firsts/scanning.htm |accessdate=4 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120221919/http://benbeck.co.uk/firsts/scanning.htm |archivedate=November 20, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The "Indomitable" MRI |publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]] |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/object_jun00.html?c=y&page=2 |accessdate=4 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120909191216/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/object_jun00.html?c=y&page=2 |archivedate=September 9, 2012 }}</ref>
* September 16 – The first [[percutaneous coronary intervention]] on a sentient patient is performed by cardiologist [[Andreas Gruentzig]] in Zurich.<ref>{{cite web|title=Biographical Sketch of Andreas Gruentzig (1939–1985)|url=http://www.ptca.org/archive/bios/gruentzig.html|work=Angioplasty.Org|accessdate=November 8, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Meier|first1=Bernhard|last2=Bachmann|first2=Dölf|last3=Lüscher|first3=Thomas F.|title=25 years of coronary angioplasty: almost a fairy tale|url=http://www.lancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(03)12470-1/fulltext|journal=[[The Lancet]]|volume=361|issue=9356|page=527|date=February 8, 2003|pmid=12583964|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12470-1|s2cid=19237951|accessdate=November 8, 2011|doi-access=free|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* October 26 – The world's last natural infection of [[smallpox]] is reported in [[Somalia]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Waldman|first=Thomas A.|year=2003|url=http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v9/n3/full/nm0303-269.html&filetype=pdf|format=PDF|title=Immunotherapy: past, present and future|journal=[[Nature Medicine]]|volume=9|pages=269–277|doi=10.1038/nm0303-269|pmid=12612576|issue=3|s2cid=9745527|accessdate=10 March 2005<!--DASHBot-->|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* December 16 – The first microelectronic multi-channel [[cochlear implant]], developed by [[Ingeborg Hochmair]] and [[Erwin Hochmair]], is implanted.