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List of years in science
(
Table
)
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1968
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1969
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1970
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1971
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1972
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1973
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1974
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1975
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1976
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1977
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1978
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1979
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1980
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1981
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1982
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1983
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1984
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1985
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1986
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1987
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1988
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1975
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1976
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1977
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1978
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1979
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1980
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1981
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The year
1978 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events, listed below.
Contents
1
Computer science
2
Awards
3
Births
4
Deaths
Computer science
February 16
- The first
computer
bulletin board system
is created (CBBS in
Chicago, Illinois
).
Awards
Fields Prize in Mathematics
:
Pierre Deligne
,
Charles Fefferman
,
Grigory Margulis
and
Daniel Quillen
Nobel Prizes
Physics
-
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
,
Arno Allan Penzias
,
Robert Woodrow Wilson
Chemistry
-
Peter D. Mitchell
Medicine
-
Werner Arber
,
Daniel Nathans
,
Hamilton O. Smith
Turing Award
-
Robert Floyd
Births
Deaths
January 14
-
Kurt Gödel
(b.
1906
),
American
mathematician
.
March 31
-
Charles Best
(b.
1899
), medical scientist
September 15
-
Willy Messerschmitt
(b.
1898
),
German
aircraft
engineer
.
November 15
-
Margaret Mead
(b.
1901
), cultural
anthropologist
.
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