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30 Nov 1979
John B. Goodenough |
John B. Goodenough (chemistry) John B. Goodenough, working with colleagues at the University of Oxford Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, identifies the cathode material that enables development of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery. |
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30 Nov 1979
Atari |
Atari (computer science) Atari release a conversion of the hit arcade game Space Invaders for the Atari 2600 which popularises the home video game console. |
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30 Nov 1979
Usenet |
Usenet (computer science) Usenet established at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. |
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30 Nov 1979
Convolutional neural networks |
Convolutional neural networks (computer science) Convolutional neural networks are introduced in a paper by Kunihiko Fukushima. |
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30 Nov 1979
American Psychiatric Association |
American Psychiatric Association (medicine) The much-enlarged third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), produced under the control of Robert Spitzer, is published. |
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30 Nov 1979
Dracunculiasis |
Dracunculiasis (medicine) Global campaign to eradicate Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) begins at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
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30 Nov 1979
MRI |
MRI (medicine) First commercial MRI whole body scanner manufactured by Oxford Instruments for installation at Hammersmith Hospital, London. |
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30 Nov 1979
Turing Award |
Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – C. A. R. Hoare |
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03 Jan 1980
Joy Adamson |
death Joy Adamson Joy Adamson (b. 1910), Silesian-born Kenyan wildlife conservationist (murdered). |
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08 Jan 1980
John Mauchly |
death John Mauchly John Mauchly (b. 1907), American co-inventor of the ENIAC computer. |
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31 Jan 1980
Dan Milisavljevic |
birth Dan Milisavljevic Dan Milisavljevic, Canadian astronomer. |
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02 Feb 1980
William H. Stein |
death William H. Stein Died 2 Feb 1980 at age 68 (born 25 Jun 1911). William Howard Stein was an American biochemist who (with Stanford Moore and Christian B. Anfinsen) was a cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1972 for their studies of the pancreatic enzyme ribonuclease. Stein, with Moore, investigated the connection between its chemical structure and the catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule. Between 1949 and 1963, they developed methods for the analysis of amino acids and peptides obtained from proteins, determined the structure of ribonuclease, and it catalyzes the digestion of food. By 1972, they had also worked out the complete sequence of deoxyribonuclease, a molecule twice as complex as ribonuclease. |
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07 Feb 1980
Secondo Campini |
death Secondo Campini Secondo Campini (b 1904), Italian jet engine pioneer. |
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22 May 1980
arcade game |
arcade game (computer science) The arcade game Pac-Man is released in Japan. |
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28 May 1980
Rolf Nevanlinna |
death Rolf Nevanlinna Rolf Nevanlinna (b. 1895), Finnish mathematician. |
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06 Jun 1980
Luis |
Luis (geophysics) Luis and Walter Alvarez with Frank Asaro and Helen Michels propose the Alvarez hypothesis, that the mass extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by the impact of a large asteroid 66 million years ago, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. |
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18 Jun 1980
Kazimierz Kuratowski |
death Kazimierz Kuratowski Kazimierz Kuratowski (b. 1896), Polish mathematician. |
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01 Jul 1980
Microsoft |
Microsoft (computer science) Microsoft's Bill Gates agrees to create an operating system for the new IBM Personal Computer. In September, David Bradley becomes one of the "original 12" engineers working on the project (under Don Estridge) and is responsible for the ROM BIOS code and for developing the Control-Alt-Delete command. |
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01 Jul 1980
C. P. Snow |
death C. P. Snow C. P. Snow (b. 1905), English physicist and novelist. |
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18 Oct 1980
Hans Ferdinand Mayer |
death Hans Ferdinand Mayer Hans Ferdinand Mayer (b. 1895), German physicist. |
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21 Oct 1980
Hans Asperger |
death Hans Asperger Hans Asperger (b. 1906), Austrian pediatrician. |
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04 Nov 1980
Elsie MacGill |
death Elsie MacGill Elsie MacGill (b. 1905), Canadian aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes". |
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12 Nov 1980
Voyager program |
Voyager program (astronomy and space ) Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn when it flies within 77,000 miles (124,000 km) of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth. |
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20 Nov 1980
Solar-powered flight |
Solar-powered flight In 1980, Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger piloted its first solar-powered flight. The aircraft was designed and built by AeroVironment, Inc. (founded in 1971 by ultra-light airplane innovator, Dr. Paul MacCready). An earlier, 71-ft wingspan, solar-powered design, the Gossamer Penguin, after test flights, flew about 1.95 miles at a public demonstration on 7 Aug 1980. Solar Challenger built upon this experience to be a piloted, solar-powered aircraft strong enough to handle both long and high flights when encountering normal turbulence. With only a 46.5-ft wingspan, it had a huge horizontal stabilizer and had enough wing area for 16,128 solar cells. After design modifications, Ptacek flew across the English Channel flight on 7 July 1981. |
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22 Nov 1980
Shawn Fanning |
birth Shawn Fanning Shawn Fanning, American computer programmer. |
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12 Dec 1980
daVinci manuscript |
daVinci manuscript In 1980, Leonardo daVinci's 36-sheet manuscript Codex Leicester was auctioned at Christie's. It was bought by Armand Hammer for $4.5 million. At the time, it was the highest price paid for a complete manuscript. (It has subsequently been resold). The Codex Leicester, written 1506-10, embraces a wide variety of topics, from astronomy to hydrodynamics, and includes Leonardo's observations and theories related to rivers and seas; the properties of water; rocks and fossils; air; and celestial light. All of this is expressed in his signature mirror writing, as well as in more than 300 pen-and-ink sketches, drawings, and diagrams, many of them illustrating imagined or real experiments. |
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16 Dec 1980
Hellmuth Walter |
death Hellmuth Walter Hellmuth Walter (b. 1900), German-born mechanical engineer and inventor. |
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