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The year 1980 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Astronomy and space exploration 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy and space exploration

• November 12 - Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn when it flies within 77,000 miles (124,000 km) of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch
  • Chemistry - Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
  • Medicine - Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell
• Turing Award - C. A. R. Hoare

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• January 8 - John Mauchly (b. 1907), co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
• February 7 - Secondo Campini (b 1904), Italian jet engine pioneer.
• May 28 - Rolf Nevanlinna (b. 1895), mathematician.
• November 4 - Elsie MacGill (b. 1905), aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes".
• December 16 - Hellmuth Walter (b. 1900), engineer and inventor.