1981 in science
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The year 1981 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Biology
- Publication of Stephen Jay Gould's critique of biological determinism, The Mismeasure of Man, in the United States.
[edit] Computer science
- August 12 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.[1]
[edit] Medicine
- June 5 - AIDS pandemic begins when the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports an unusual cluster of Pneumocystis pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.[2]
- Dr Bruce Reitz performs the first successful heart–lung transplant on Mary Gohlke at Stanford Hospital.
IBM PC 5150
[edit] Space exploration
- April 12 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
[edit] Technology
- July 7 – Electric aircraft Solar Challenger, designed by an American team led by Paul MacCready and piloted by Stephen Ptacek, makes a 163 mile (262 km) crossing of the English Channel using only solar power from wing-mounted photovoltaic cells.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
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[edit] Deaths
- January 5 – Harold Urey (b. 1893), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- March 9 – Max Delbrück (b. 1906), German biologist
- November 22 – Hans Krebs (b. 1900), German medical doctor and biochemist; discoverer of the citric acid cycle
- December 6 – Harry Harlow (b. 1905), American psychologist
[edit] References
- ^ Bellis, Mary. "IBM History". About.com. http://inventors.about.com/od/computersandinternet/a/Ibm-History.htm. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "Pneumocystis pneumonia — Los Angeles". Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Centers for Disease Control) 30 (21): 250–2. June 1981. PMID 6265753. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/june_5.htm.