Overview of the events of 1978 in science
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The year 1978 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space science
Computer science
Geophysics
History of science
Paleontology
- Fossils of Saint Bathans mammal first collected.
- Fossil footprints of bipedal hominini from 3.6M BP found at Laetoli in Tanzania in 1976 are excavated by Mary Leakey's team.
- A fossilized partial human cranium is among hominid remains found in Apidima Cave in southern Greece; in 2019 it is announced as dating to more than 210,000 years BP, making it the earliest example of Homo sapiens outside Africa.[5]
Physiology and medicine
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 14 – Kurt Gödel (b. 1906), American mathematician.
- February 25 – Edith Humphrey (b. 1875), English chemist.
- March 9 – Gaston Julia (b. 1893), French mathematician.
- March 23 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer (b. 1893), Jewish biochemist.
- March 30 – Bill Hamilton (b. 1899), New Zealand mechanical engineer.
- March 31 – Charles Best (b. 1899), Canadian medical scientist.
- April 21 – Thomas Wyatt Turner (b. 1877), American civil rights activist, biologist and educator; first black person ever to receive a doctorate from Cornell.
- July 22 – André Chapelon (b. 1892), French steam locomotive designer.
- September 15 – Willy Messerschmitt (b. 1898), German aircraft engineer.
- November 15 – Margaret Mead (b. 1901), American cultural anthropologist.
References
- ^ Fountain, J. W.; Larson, S. M. (1978). "Saturn's ring and nearby faint satellites". Icarus. 36 (1): 92–106. Bibcode:1978Icar...36...92F. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(78)90076-3.
- ^ Rivest, R.; Shamir, A.; Adleman, L. (1978). "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 21 (2): 120–126. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.607.2677. doi:10.1145/359340.359342. S2CID 2873616. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
- ^ Byerlee, J. D. (1978). "Friction of rocks". Pure and Applied Geophysics. 116 (4–5): 615–626. Bibcode:1978PApGe.116..615B. doi:10.1007/BF00876528. S2CID 128666327.
- ^ ISBN 0-333-24827-9.
- ^ Harvati, Katerina; Röding, Carolin; Bosman, Abel M.; Karakostis, Fotios A.; Grün, Rainer; Stringer, Chris; Karkanas, Panagiotis; Thompson, Nicholas C.; Koutoulidis, Vassilis; Moulopoulos, Lia A.; Gorgoulis, Vassilis G.; Kouloukoussa, Mirsini (2019). "Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia". Nature. 571 (7766): 500–504. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z. PMID 31292546. S2CID 195873640.
- ^ "1978: First 'test tube baby' born". On This Day. BBC News. 1978-07-25. Archived from the original on 2007-12-21. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
- ^ Hauschka, P. V.; Reid. M. L. (1978). "Timed appearance of a calcium-binding protein containing gamma-carboxyglutamic acid in developing chick bone". Developmental Biology. 65 (2): 426–34. doi:10.1016/0012-1606(78)90038-6. PMID 680371.
- ^ "First Successful Laboratory Production of Human Insulin Announced". News Release. Genentech. 1978-09-06. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ Tof, Ilanit (1994). "Recombinant DNA Technology in the Synthesis of Human Insulin". Little Tree. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ Pitt, D.; Hopkins, I. (1978). "A syndrome of mental retardation, wide mouth and intermittent overbreathing". Australian Paediatric Journal. 14 (3): 182–184. doi:10.1111/jpc.1978.14.3.182. PMID 728011. S2CID 45629810.
- ^ Bendet, Ia. A.; Morozov, S. M.; Skumin, V. A. (1980). "Psychological aspects of the rehabilitation of patients after the surgical treatment of heart defects" Психологические аспекты реабилитации больных после хирургического лечения пороков сердца [Psychological aspects of the rehabilitation of patients after the surgical treatment of heart defects]. Kardiologiia (in Russian). 20 (6): 45–51. PMID 7392405. Archived from the original on 2017-09-05. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
- ^ "Skumin syndrome". wikidata.org. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 30 January 2023.