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Overview of the events of 1978 in science
The year 1978 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space science [ edit ]
Fossils of Saint Bathans mammal first collected.
Fossil footprints of bipedal hominini from 3.6M BP found at Laetoli in Tanzania in 1976 are excavated by Mary Leakey 's team.
A fossilized partial human cranium is among hominid remains found in Apidima Cave in southern Greece ; in 2019 it is announced as dating to more than 210,000 years BP, making it the earliest example of Homo sapiens outside Africa.[ 5]
Physiology and medicine [ edit ]
January 14 – Kurt Gödel (b. 1906 ), American mathematician
February 25 – Edith Humphrey (b. 1875 ), English chemist
March 9 – Gaston Julia (b. 1893 ), French mathematician
March 23 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer (b. 1893 ), Jewish biochemist
March 30 – Bill Hamilton (b. 1899 ), New Zealand mechanical engineer
March 31 – Charles Best (b. 1899 ), Canadian medical scientist
April 21 – Thomas Wyatt Turner (b. 1877 ), American civil rights activist, biologist and educator; first black person ever to receive a doctorate from Cornell University
July 22 – André Chapelon (b. 1892 ), French steam locomotive designer
September 15 – Willy Messerschmitt (b. 1898 ), German aircraft engineer
November 15 – Margaret Mead (b. 1901 ), American cultural anthropologist
^ Fountain, J. W.; Larson, S. M. (1978). "Saturn's ring and nearby faint satellites". Icarus . 36 (1): 92–106. Bibcode :1978Icar...36...92F . doi :10.1016/0019-1035(78)90076-3 .
^ Rivest, R.; Shamir, A.; Adleman, L. (1978). "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems" (PDF) . Communications of the ACM . 21 (2): 120–126. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.607.2677 . doi :10.1145/359340.359342 . S2CID 2873616 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2012-01-28 .
^ Byerlee, J. D. (1978). "Friction of rocks". Pure and Applied Geophysics . 116 (4–5): 615–626. Bibcode :1978PApGe.116..615B . doi :10.1007/BF00876528 . S2CID 128666327 .
^ ISBN 0-333-24827-9 .
^ Harvati, Katerina; Röding, Carolin; Bosman, Abel M.; Karakostis, Fotios A.; Grün, Rainer; Stringer, Chris; Karkanas, Panagiotis; Thompson, Nicholas C.; Koutoulidis, Vassilis; Moulopoulos, Lia A.; Gorgoulis, Vassilis G.; Kouloukoussa, Mirsini (2019). "Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia" . Nature . 571 (7766): 500–504. doi :10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z . PMID 31292546 . S2CID 195873640 .
^ "1978: First 'test tube baby' born" . On This Day . BBC News . 1978-07-25. Archived from the original on 2007-12-21. Retrieved 2013-12-18 .
^ Hauschka, P. V.; Reid. M. L. (1978). "Timed appearance of a calcium-binding protein containing gamma-carboxyglutamic acid in developing chick bone". Developmental Biology . 65 (2): 426–34. doi :10.1016/0012-1606(78)90038-6 . PMID 680371 .
^ "First Successful Laboratory Production of Human Insulin Announced" . News Release . Genentech. 1978-09-06. Retrieved 2014-01-06 .
^ Tof, Ilanit (1994). "Recombinant DNA Technology in the Synthesis of Human Insulin" . Little Tree. Retrieved 2014-01-06 .
^ Pitt, D.; Hopkins, I. (1978). "A syndrome of mental retardation, wide mouth and intermittent overbreathing". Australian Paediatric Journal . 14 (3): 182–184. doi :10.1111/jpc.1978.14.3.182 . PMID 728011 . S2CID 45629810 .
^ Bendet, Ia. A.; Morozov, S. M.; Skumin, V. A. (1980). "Psychological aspects of the rehabilitation of patients after the surgical treatment of heart defects" Психологические аспекты реабилитации больных после хирургического лечения пороков сердца [Psychological aspects of the rehabilitation of patients after the surgical treatment of heart defects]. Kardiologiia (in Russian). 20 (6): 45–51. PMID 7392405 . Retrieved 25 June 2024 .
^ "Skumin syndrome" . wikidata.org. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 30 January 2023 .
^ Clance, Pauline R.; Imes, Suzanne A. (1978). "The Impostor Phenomenon in High Achieving Women: Dynamics and Therapeutic Intervention" (PDF) . Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice . 15 : 241–247. doi :10.1037/h0086006 .