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* March 8 – [[Joseph Henry Woodger]], British theoretical biologist (b. [[1894 in science|1894]])<ref>{{cite journal| last1=Popper | first1=Karl | year=1981 | title=Obituary: Joseph Henry Woodger | journal=[[British Journal for the Philosophy of Science]] | volume=32 | issue=3 | pages=328–330 | doi=10.1093/bjps/32.3.328 }}</ref> | * March 8 – [[Joseph Henry Woodger]], British theoretical biologist (b. [[1894 in science|1894]])<ref>{{cite journal| last1=Popper | first1=Karl | year=1981 | title=Obituary: Joseph Henry Woodger | journal=[[British Journal for the Philosophy of Science]] | volume=32 | issue=3 | pages=328–330 | doi=10.1093/bjps/32.3.328 }}</ref> | ||
* March 9 – [[Max Delbrück]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), [[Germans|German]] [[biologist]].<ref>{{Cite journal | author = William Hayes | author-link = William Hayes (geneticist)| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1982.0003 | title = Max Ludwig Henning Delbruck. 4 September 1906-10 March 1981 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London|volume = 28 | pages = 58–90| year = 1982 | jstor = 769892 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | * March 9 – [[Max Delbrück]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), [[Germans|German]] [[biologist]].<ref>{{Cite journal | author = William Hayes | author-link = William Hayes (geneticist)| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1982.0003 | title = Max Ludwig Henning Delbruck. 4 September 1906-10 March 1981 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London|volume = 28 | pages = 58–90| year = 1982 | jstor = 769892 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | ||
* March 11 – [[Kazimierz Kordylewski]] (b. [[1903 in science|1903]]), Polish astronomer. | |||
* March 23 – [[Beatrice Tinsley]] (b. [[1941 in science|1941]]), English astronomer. | |||
* April 3 – [[Leo Kanner]] (b. [[1894 in science|1894]]), [[Austrian Americans|Austrian American]] clinical [[Child and adolescent psychiatry|child psychiatrist]]. | * April 3 – [[Leo Kanner]] (b. [[1894 in science|1894]]), [[Austrian Americans|Austrian American]] clinical [[Child and adolescent psychiatry|child psychiatrist]]. | ||
* May 11 – [[Odd Hassel]], Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1897 in science|1897]])<ref>{{Citation|last=Pedersen|first=Bjørn|title=Odd Hassel|date=2019-09-24|url=http://snl.no/Odd_Hassel|work=Store norske leksikon|language=no|access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref> | * May 11 – [[Odd Hassel]], Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1897 in science|1897]])<ref>{{Citation|last=Pedersen|first=Bjørn|title=Odd Hassel|date=2019-09-24|url=http://snl.no/Odd_Hassel|work=Store norske leksikon|language=no|access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref> | ||
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The year 1981 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
Biology
- September – Pantanal Matogrossense National Park designated in Brazil.
- Publication of Stephen Jay Gould's critique of biological determinism, The Mismeasure of Man, in the United States.
Chemistry
- A German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt bombard a target of bismuth-209 with accelerated nuclei of chromium-54 to produce 5 atoms of the isotope bohrium-262
Computer science
- March 5 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research, going on to sell over 1.5 million units worldwide.
- April 3 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
- July 9 – Nintendo releases the arcade game Donkey Kong featuring the debut of Mario.
- August 12 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.[1]
- September 12 – The Chaos Computer Club, a European association of hackers, is established in Berlin by Wau Holland and others.
Mathematics
- Alexander Merkurjev proves the norm residue isomorphism theorem for the case n = 2 and ℓ = 2.
Medicine
- April 26 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco, performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
- June 5 – AIDS pandemic begins when the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports an unusual cluster of Pneumocystis pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.[2]
- Bruce Reitz leads the team that performs the first successful heart–lung transplant on Mary Gohlke at Stanford Hospital.[3]
- LeCompte maneuver first performed.[4]
- English psychiatrist Lorna Wing introduces the term "Asperger syndrome".[5]
Space exploration
- April 12 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
- October 6 – UoSAT-1, the first modern microsatellite, is launched into Low Earth orbit.[6]
Technology
- July 7 – Electric aircraft Solar Challenger, designed by an American team led by Paul MacCready and piloted by Stephen Ptacek, makes a 163-mile (262 km) crossing of the English Channel using only solar power from wing-mounted photovoltaic cells.
- July 17 – Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Structural failure due to a late design change causes two internal suspended walkways at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri to collapse, killing 114.
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 5
- Frederick Osborn (b. 1889), American philanthropist and eugenicist.
- Harold Urey (b. 1893), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[7]
- February 26 – Jennie Smillie Robertson (b. 1878), Canadian gynecological surgeon.
- March 8 – Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist (b. 1894)[8]
- March 9 – Max Delbrück (b. 1906), German biologist.[9]
- March 11 – Kazimierz Kordylewski (b. 1903), Polish astronomer.
- March 23 – Beatrice Tinsley (b. 1941), English astronomer.
- April 3 – Leo Kanner (b. 1894), Austrian American clinical child psychiatrist.
- May 11 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)[10]
- July 4 - Niels Erik Nørlund (b. 1885), Danish mathematician.
- July 27 – Elizabeth Rona (b. 1890), Hungarian American nuclear chemist.
- July 31 – Ernest Melville DuPorte (b. 1891), Black Canadian insect morphologist.
- September 8 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)[11]
- September 9 – Jacques Lacan (b. 1901), French psychoanalyst.[12]
- November 15 – Walter Heitler (b. 1904), German physicist
Fellow of the Royal Society[13] - November 17
- Wilhelm Pelikan (b. 1893), Austrian chemist.[14]
- Sibyl M. Rock (b. 1909), American mathematician.
- November 22 – Hans Krebs (b. 1900), German medical doctor and biochemist; discoverer of the citric acid cycle.[15]
- December 6 – Harry Harlow (b. 1905), American psychologist.
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