1981 in science

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The year 1981 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.

Contents

1 Computer science
2 Space exploration
3 Awards
4 Births
5 Deaths

Computer science

August 12 - The IBM PC is released.

Space exploration

April 12 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.

Awards

Births

Deaths

March 9 - Max Delbrück (b. 1906), German biologist
November 22 - Hans Adolf Krebs (b. 1900), German medical doctor and biochemist. Discoverer of the citric acid cycle

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