1978 in science

The year 1978 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

Computer science

• February 16 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • 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.