1978 in science: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The year 1978 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

See also: 1977 in science, other events of 1978, 1979 in science, and the list of years in science.

Computer science

• February 16 - The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
  • Chemistry - Peter D. Mitchell
  • Medicine - Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith
• Turing Award - Robert Floyd

• January 14 - Kurt Gödel, US mathematician
• March 31 - Charles Best, medical scientist
• September 15 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft engineer
• November 15 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist