1978 in science

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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

[edit] Computer science

• February 16 - The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).

[edit] 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

[edit] Births

[edit] 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.fr:1978 en science

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