1978 in science

1978 in science

The year 1978 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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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