Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/18

1997
 * ... Stanley B. Prusiner of the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research into prions ...
 * ... The Silicon Graphics campus in Mountain View is completed ...
 * ... Netflix is founded in Los Gatos ...
 * ... San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen (pictured) dies ...