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30 Nov 1978
Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (astronomy and space ) Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific given for the first time. |
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30 Nov 1978
Baden Powell |
Baden Powell (biology) Baden Powell publishes New Zealand Mollusca. |
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30 Nov 1978
VisiCalc |
VisiCalc (computer science) VisiCalc becomes the first spreadsheet program. |
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30 Nov 1978
US Federal Government |
US Federal Government (computer science) The US Federal Government releases the initial, draft version of Ada (programming language), a strongly typed, comb-structured language with exception handlers, for embedded systems. |
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30 Nov 1978
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane |
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane (history of science) Robert Gwyn Macfarlane publishes Howard Florey: The Making of a Great Scientist. |
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30 Nov 1978
Monstrous moonshine |
Monstrous moonshine (mathematics) 'Monstrous moonshine': John Conway and Simon P. Norton prove there is a connection between the Monster group M and the j-function in number theory. |
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30 Nov 1978
Sudoku |
Sudoku (mathematics) The first modern Sudoku, known as Number Place, appears in Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games (United States), devised by Howard Garns. |
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30 Nov 1978
Polio |
Polio (medicine) The last naturally occurring cases of Polio are reported in the United States. |
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30 Nov 1978
protein |
protein (medicine) Tumor protein p53 is identified by Lionel Crawford, David Lane, Arnold J. Levine and Lloyd J. Old. |
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30 Nov 1978
Turing Award |
Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – Kenneth E. Iverson |
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01 Jan 1979
Oscar H. Banker |
death Oscar H. Banker Oscar H. Banker (b. 1895), Armenian American inventor. |
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07 Feb 1979
Pluto |
Pluto (astronomy and space ) Pluto enters a 20-year period inside the orbit of Neptune for the first time in 230 years. |
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01 Mar 1979
Philips |
Philips (technology) Philips publicly demonstrate a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands. |
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07 Mar 1979
magnetar |
magnetar (astronomy and space ) The largest magnetar (soft gamma repeater) event is recorded. |
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17 Mar 1979
Henry Aaron Hill |
death Henry Aaron Hill Henry Aaron Hill (b. 1915), American fluorocarbon chemist, first African American president of the American Chemical Society. |
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05 Apr 1979
Kakadu National Park |
Kakadu National Park (conservation) First stage of Kakadu National Park declared in Australia. |
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05 Apr 1979
Eugène Gabritschevsky |
death Eugène Gabritschevsky Eugène Gabritschevsky (b. 1893), Russian biologist and artist. |
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06 May 1979
Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth |
death Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (b. 1892), German astronomer. |
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10 May 1979
High voltage |
High voltage In 1979, a potential difference of 32.0 million volts, the highest ever generated, was produced by the National Electrostatics Corporation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee. Company personnel were testing the newly installed Pelletron accelerator model 25 URC, the largest manufacturered by the company. (The sustained terminal voltage was measured by the current measurement of the column corona voltage grading system to within an uncertainty of +/-5% or +/- 1.5 MV). On 7 May 1979, voltage tests had been conducted on the column structure prior to installation of the acceleration tubes. This 25 MV electrostatic tandem accelerator remains in use at ORNL producing radioactive ion beams for research. |
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12 Jun 1979
Human-powered aircraft |
Human-powered aircraft (technology) Human-powered aircraft Gossamer Albatross, built by an American team led by Paul MacCready and piloted by Bryan Allen, makes a successful crossing of the English Channel to win the second Kremer prize. |
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29 Jun 1979
Artur Avila |
birth Artur Avila Artur Avila, Brazilian-born mathematician. |
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11 Jul 1979
atmospheric entry |
atmospheric entry (astronomy and space ) America's first space station, Skylab, is deliberately allowed to burn up on atmospheric entry over the Indian Ocean. |
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01 Aug 1979
eating disorder |
eating disorder (medicine) The eating disorder Bulimia nervosa is first described and named by British psychiatrist Gerald Russell. |
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10 Aug 1979
Walther Gerlach |
death Walther Gerlach Died 10 Aug 1979 at age 90 (born 1 Aug 1889). German physicist noted especially for his work with Otto Stern on the deflections of atoms in a nonhomogeneous magnetic field. The Stern-Gerlach experiment is a demonstration of the restricted spatial orientation of atomic and subatomic particles with magnetic polarity, performed in the early 1920s by the German physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach. In the experiment, a beam of neutral silver atoms was directed through a set of aligned slits, then through a nonuniform (nonhomogeneous) magnetic field. |
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01 Sep 1979
Pioneer 11 |
Pioneer 11 (astronomy and space ) The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km. |
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26 Sep 1979
Barnes Wallis |
death Barnes Wallis Sir Barnes Wallis (b. 1887), English aeronautical engineer. |
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20 Nov 1979
Artificial blood transfusion |
Artificial blood transfusion In 1979, artificial blood was first used in a patient by transfusion at the University of Minnesota Hospital. The patient was a Jehovah's Witness, who had refused a transfusion of real blood because of his religious beliefs. |
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09 Dec 1979
World Health Organization |
World Health Organization (medicine) The World Health Organization certifies the global eradication of smallpox. |
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24 Dec 1979
Ariane 1 |
Ariane 1 (astronomy and space ) The maiden launch of Ariane 1, the first rocket in the Ariane launcher family. |
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