1984 in science

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The year 1984 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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

Astronomy and space exploration

February 7 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
The NRAO converts the 36-foot Radio Telescope on Kitt Peak (originally built in 1967) to a 12 Meter Telescope.

Computer science

January 5 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
January 22 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to use a computer mouse and GUI interface, is introduced by Apple Computer corporation

Technology

July 21 - In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.

Awards

Births

Deaths

May 13 - Stanisław Marcin Ulam (b. 1909), mathematician.
October 20 - Paul Dirac (b. 1902), physicist.

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