- 1976 in science
The year 1976 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy and space exploration
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June 18 -Gravity Probe A , a satellite-based experiment to testAlbert Einstein 's theory ofgeneral relativity , is launched.
*July 20 -Viking program : TheViking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
*July 31 -NASA releases the famousFace on Mars photo, taken byViking 1
*August 7 -Viking program :Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
*September 3 -Viking program : TheViking 2 spacecraft lands atUtopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
*September 17 -Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled outAviation
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January 21 - TheConcorde begins commercial flights.
* December - The first flight of theF-16 Fighting Falcon .Computer science
* January - The
Cray-1 , the first commercially developedsupercomputer , is released bySeymour Cray 'sCray Research .
*April 1 -Apple Computer Company is formed bySteve Jobs andSteve Wozniak
*November 26 - Little known companyMicrosoft is officially registered with theOffice of the Secretary of the State ofNew Mexico .Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -Burton Richter ,Samuel C. C. Ting
** Chemistry -William N. Lipscomb
** Medicine -Baruch S. Blumberg ,Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
*Turing Award -Michael O. Rabin ,Dana Scott Births
Deaths
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February 1 -Werner Heisenberg (b. 1901),physicist .
*April 21 -Carl Benjamin Boyer (b. 1906), historian of mathematics.
*May 31 -Jacques Monod (b. 1910),biochemist , winner ofNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
*October 5 -Lars Onsager (d. 1903),chemist .
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