1978 In Science

Article Index for
1978 In

Website Links For
1978

Information About

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

, Charles Fefferman , Grigory Margulis and Daniel Quillen

Nobel Prize s

--- 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 .