1976 in science

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The year 1976 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

1 Astronomy and space exploration
2 Aviation
3 Computer science
4 Awards
5 Births
6 Deaths

Astronomy and space exploration

June 18 - Gravity Probe A, a satellite-based experiment to test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, is launched.
July 20 - Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
July 31 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1
August 7 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
September 3 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out

Aviation

January 21 - The Concorde begins commercial flights.
December - The first flight of the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Computer science

January - The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research.
April 1 - Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
November 26 - Little known company Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.

Awards

Births

Deaths

February 1 - Werner Heisenberg (b. 1901), physicist.
April 21 - Carl Benjamin Boyer (b. 1906), historian of mathematics.
May 31 - Jacques Monod (b. 1910), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
October 5 - Lars Onsager (d. 1903), chemist.

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