1983 in science explained
The year 1983 in science and technology involved many significant events, as listed below.
Anthropology
- New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman publishes Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, critical of Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) by Margaret Mead (d. 1978).
Astronomy and space science
- June 13 – Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to travel beyond the major planets of the Solar System.
- September 26 – The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft, fires immediately pulling the crew safe from the vehicle, six seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex.
Biology
Computer science
- January 1 – The ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
- August – Specification for a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (originally devised by Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits) published.[6]
- September 27 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project.[7]
- October 25 – Word processor software Multi-Tool Word, soon to become Microsoft Word, is released.[8] [9] [10] It is primarily the work of programmers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi. Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of PC World magazine.[11]
- November 10 – Fred Cohen demonstrates a self-replicating source code which his academic adviser at the University of Southern California, Leonard Adleman, likens to a virus.[12]
- December – Yugoslav popular science magazine Galaksija releases a special (January 1984) issue, "Računari u vašoj kući", with complete instructions on how to build a full-featured home computer, Galaksija.
- The suffix automaton data structure is introduced.[13]
- The US Federal Government standardizes Ada (programming language), a strongly typed, comb-structured computer language, with exception handlers, for general-purpose programming.
History of science
Mathematics
Medicine
Metrology
Paleontology
Psychology
Technology
Organizations
- Spain re-joins CERN after having left in 1969 (originally joined for the first time in 1961).
Awards
Births
Deaths
- February 27 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908)
- March 18 – Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
- April 15 – Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
- May 22 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 (b. 1898)
- August 2 – Edmund Jaeger, American naturalist (b. 1887)
- October 7 – George O. Abell, American astronomer (b. 1927)
- October 19 – Dorothy Stuart Russell, Australian-born British pathologist (b. 1895)
- October 24 – Elie Carafoli, Romanian aeronautical engineer (b. 1901)
- October 26 – Alfred Tarski, Polish American logician and mathematician (b. 1901)
- December 6 – Bruce Irons, English-born engineer and mathematician (b. 1924; suicide)
Notes and References
- Barre-Sinoussi, F.. Chermann, J.C.. Rey, F.. Nugeyre, M.T.. Chamaret, S.. Gruest, J.. Dauguet, C.. Axler-Blin, C.. Vezinet-Brun, F.. Rouzioux, C.. Rozenbaum, W.. Montagnier, L.. 390173. 1983. Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Science. 220. 4599. 868–871. 10.1126/science.6189183. 6189183. 1983Sci...220..868B.
- Greener. Mark. 2005. MAbs Turn 30. The Scientist. 19. 3. 14–16.
- Klotz S.A. . Drutz D.J. . Tam M.R. . Reed K.H. . Hemorrhagic proctitis due to lymphogranuloma venereum serogroup L2: Diagnosis by fluorescent monoclonal antibody. The New England Journal of Medicine. 308. 26. 1563–1565. 6602293. 10.1056/NEJM198306303082604. 1983 .
- Hanukoglu I, Fuchs E . The cDNA sequence of a Type II cytoskeletal keratin reveals constant and variable structural domains among keratins. . Cell . 33 . 3 . 915–924 . Jul 1983 . 10.1016/0092-8674(83)90034-X . 6191871 . 21490380 .
- Nature. 1983-11-03. 306. 67–9. Release of Ca2+ from a nonmitochondrial intracellular store in pancreatic acinar cells by inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate. Streb, H.. Irvine, R. F.. Berridge, M. J.. Schulz, I.. 5938. 10.1038/306067a0. 6605482. 1983Natur.306...67S . 4359904 .
- Chadabe. Joel. Joel Chadabe. 2000-05-01. The Electronic Century, Part IV: The Seeds of the Future. Electronic Musician. Penton Media. 16. 5. 2012-11-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20120928230435/http://www.emusician.com/gear/0769/the-electronic-century-part-iv-the-seeds-of-the-future/145415. September 28, 2012. dead. mdy-all.
- On the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.
- Book: Allen, Roy A.. A History of the Personal Computer: the People and the Technology. 2001. Allan Publishing. 978-0-9689108-0-1. Chapter 12: Microsoft in the 1980s. https://archive.org/download/A_History_of_the_Personal_Computer/eBook12.pdf. 12/25–12/26. 2010-11-07.
- Web site: Microsoft Office online, Getting to know you...again: The Ribbon. 2011-06-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20110511074037/http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101996251033.aspx. 2011-05-11. dead.
- Web site: The history of branding, Microsoft history. 2011-06-08. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090528002301/http://www.historyofbranding.com/microsoft.html. 2009-05-28.
- News: Andrew. Pollack. Computerizing Magazines. The New York Times. 1983-08-25. 2011-06-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20110512095456/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/25/business/technologyandrew-pollack-computerizing-magazines.html. 2011-05-12. live.
- This Day in Tech – Nov. 10, 1983: Computer 'Virus' Is Born. Kim. Zetter. Kim Zetter. 2009-11-10. 2012-01-28. Wired.
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- Book: Gorenstein, Daniel. The classification of finite simple groups. Vol. 1. Groups of noncharacteristic 2 type. New York. Plenum Press. The University Series in Mathematics. 978-0-306-41305-6. 1983. 746470.
- Web site: About. UCSF. 2020-06-10.
- 10.1038/324359a0 . 3785404 . Baryonyx, a remarkable new theropod dinosaur . Nature . 324 . 6095 . 359–361 . 1986 . Charig . A. J. . Milner . A. C. . 1986Natur.324..359C. 4343514 .
- News: Fields Medals in Mathematics Won by Four Under Age 40. The New York Times. Kenneth. Chang. 2022-07-05. 2022-07-05. 2022-07-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20220705073447/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/05/science/fields-medal-math. live.