1976 in science

1976 in science

The year 1976 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

* June 18 - Gravity Probe A, a satellite-based experiment to test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, is launched.
* July 20 - Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
* July 31 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1
* August 7 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
* September 3 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
* September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out

Aviation

* January 21 - The Concorde begins commercial flights.
* December - The first flight of the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Computer science

* January - The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research.
* April 1 - Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
* November 26 - Little known company Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.

Awards

* Nobel Prizes
** Physics - Burton Richter, Samuel C. C. Ting
** Chemistry - William N. Lipscomb
** Medicine - Baruch S. Blumberg, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
* Turing Award - Michael O. Rabin, Dana Scott

Births

Deaths

* February 1 - Werner Heisenberg (b. 1901), physicist.
* April 21 - Carl Benjamin Boyer (b. 1906), historian of mathematics.
* May 31 - Jacques Monod (b. 1910), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
* October 5 - Lars Onsager (d. 1903), chemist.


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