1979 In Science

Astronomy and space exploration

• September 1 - The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.

Computer science

• VisiCalc becomes the first spreadsheet program.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
• Physics - Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
• Chemistry - Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
• Medicine - Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield
• Turing Award - Kenneth E. Iverson

Births

Deaths

• Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (b. 1892), astronomer.

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