1981 in science

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The year 1981 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Computer science 2 Space exploration 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Computer science

• August 12 - The IBM PC is released.

[edit] Space exploration

• April 12 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn
  • Chemistry - Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
  • Medicine - Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel
• Turing Award - Edgar F. Codd

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• March 9 - Max Delbrück (b. 1906), German biologist
• November 22 - Hans Adolf Krebs (b. 1900), German medical doctor and biochemist. Discoverer of the citric acid cyclefr:1981 en science

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