1981 in science
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The year 1981 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
Contents |
[edit] Computer science
[edit] Space exploration
- April 12 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
[edit] 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
