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The year 1979 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Astronomy and space exploration 2 Computer science 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Astronomy and space exploration

• September 1 - The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
• Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific given for the first time.

[edit] Computer science

• VisiCalc becomes the first spreadsheet program.
• The US Federal Government releases the initial, draft version of Ada (programming language), a strongly-typed, comb-structured language with exception handlers, for embedded systems.

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
  • Chemistry - Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
  • Medicine - Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield
• Turing Award - Kenneth E. Iverson

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (b. 1892), astronomer.

[edit] References