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1980 in science

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

Astronomy and space exploration

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Chemistry

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Computer science

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Geophysics

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History of science and technology

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Medicine

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Paleontology

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  • First four (ankle) bones of "Little Foot" (Stw 573), a nearly complete young female Australopithecus fossil skeleton capable of walking upright are found in the cave system of Sterkfontein, South Africa, eventually dated at around 3.67 million years BP but not identified at this time.[18]

Physics

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  • German physician Klaus von Klitzing, working at the high magnetic field laboratory in Grenoble with silicon-based samples developed by Michael Pepper and Gerhard Dorda, makes the unexpected discovery that the Hall conductivity is exactly quantized, the Quantum Hall effect.

Zoology

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Other events

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Awards

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Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ Mizushima, K.; Jones, P. C.; Wiseman, P. J.; Goodenough, J. B. (June 1980). "LixCoO2 (0<x≪-1): A new cathode material for batteries of high energy density". Materials Research Bulletin. 15 (6): 783–789. doi:10.1016/0025-5408(80)90012-4. S2CID 97799722.
  2. ^ Dronsfield, Alan (January 2011). "Inorganic Chemical Laboratory, Oxford/John Goodenough Landmark Award" (PDF). RSC Historical Group Newsletter. Royal Society of Chemistry: 25–27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
  3. ^ "Cern Authentication". ref.web.CERN.ch. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  4. ^ Bellis, Mary. "IBM History". About.com. Archived from the original on April 27, 2012. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
  5. ^ Aamidor, Abe. "Thank this guy for 'control-alt-delete'". The Indianapolis Star. Archived from the original on 2017-09-10. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
  6. ^ Searle, John (1980). "Minds, brains, and programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 3 (3): 417–424. doi:10.1017/s0140525x00005756. S2CID 55303721. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
  7. ^ Lueg, Christopher; Fisher, Danyel, eds. (2003). From Usenet to CoWebs: interacting with social information spaces. London: Springer. ISBN 978-1-85233-532-8.
  8. ^ Fukushima, Kunihiko (1980). "Neocognitron: A Self-organizing Neural Network Model for a Mechanism of Pattern Recognition Unaffected by Shift in Position" (PDF). Biological Cybernetics. 36 (4): 193–202. doi:10.1007/bf00344251. PMID 7370364. S2CID 206775608. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
  9. ^ Ciresan, Dan; Meier, Ueli; Schmidhuber, Jürgen (June 2012). "Multi-column deep neural networks for image classification". 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. pp. 3642–3649. arXiv:1202.2745. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2012.6248110. ISBN 9781467312264. OCLC 812295155. S2CID 2161592.
  10. ^ Alvarez, Luis W.; Alvarez, Walter; Asaro, Frank; Michel, Helen V. (1980). "Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction". Science. 208 (4448): 1095–1108. Bibcode:1980Sci...208.1095A. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.126.8496. doi:10.1126/science.208.4448.1095. PMID 17783054. S2CID 16017767.
  11. ^ "John Mallard". Profiles. 2021-02-27. Archived from the original on 2020-10-22. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  12. ^ Borel, J. F.; Kis, Z. L.; Beveridge, T. (2012). "2: The History of the Discovery and Development of Cyclosporine". In Merluzzi, Vincent J.; Adams, Julian (eds.). The Search for Anti-Inflammatory Drugs: Case Histories from Concept to Clinic. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-4615-9848-0.
  13. ^ Valentine, Vincent (June 2017). "Recapitulation of the Opening Plenary Session: San Diego 2017" (PDF). Links. ISHLT. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  14. ^ Mayes, R.; Horwitz, A. V. (2005). "DSM-III and the revolution in the classification of mental illness". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 41 (3): 249–67. doi:10.1002/jhbs.20103. PMID 15981242.
  15. ^ Wilson, M. (1993). "DSM-III and the transformation of American psychiatry: a history". American Journal of Psychiatry. 150 (3): 399–410. doi:10.1176/ajp.150.3.399. PMID 8434655.
  16. ^ Spiegel, Alix (2005-01-03). "The Dictionary of Disorder: How one man revolutionized psychiatry". The New Yorker. pp. 56–63. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-04.
  17. ^ "MRI Scanner (1980)". Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme. Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board. 2011-06-02. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
  18. ^ Geggel, Laura (2018-12-11). "'Miracle' Excavation of 'Little Foot' Skeleton Reveals Mysterious Human Relative". Live Science. Retrieved 2018-12-11.