1980 in science
The year 1980 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
- November 12 – Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn when it flies within 77,000 miles (124,000 km) of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.
Computing
Geophysics
Medicine
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 3 – Joy Adamson (b. 1910), wildlife conservationist.
- January 8 – John Mauchly (b. 1907), co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
- February 7 – Secondo Campini (b 1904), Italian jet engine pioneer.
- May 28 – Rolf Nevanlinna (b. 1895), mathematician.
- June 18 – Kazimierz Kuratowski (b. 1896), Polish mathematician.
- July 1 – C. P. Snow (b. 1905), physicist and novelist
- October 21 – Hans Asperger (b. 1906), Austrian pediatrician.
- November 4 – Elsie MacGill (b. 1905), aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes".
- December 16 – Hellmuth Walter (b. 1900), engineer and inventor.
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