Overview of the events of 1983 in science
The year 1983 in science and technology involved many significant events, as listed below.
Astronomy and space science [ edit ]
June 13 – Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune , becoming the first man-made object to travel beyond the major planets of the Solar System .
September 26 – The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome , when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft , fires immediately pulling the crew safe from the vehicle, six seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex.
January 1 – The ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol , creating the Internet.
August – Specification for a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (originally devised by Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits ) published.[6]
September 27 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project .[7]
October 25 – Word processor software Multi-Tool Word , soon to become Microsoft Word , is released.[8] [9] [10] It is primarily the work of programmers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi . Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of PC World magazine.[11]
November 10 – Fred Cohen demonstrates a self-replicating source code which his academic adviser at the University of Southern California , Leonard Adleman , likens to a virus .[12]
December – Yugoslav popular science magazine Galaksija releases a special (January 1984) issue, "Računari u vašoj kući", with complete instructions on how to build a full-featured home computer, Galaksija .
The suffix automaton data structure is introduced.[13]
The US Federal Government standardizes Ada (programming language) , a strongly typed, comb-structured computer language , with exception handlers , for general-purpose programming.
Spain re-joins CERN after having left in 1969 (originally joined for the first time in 1961).
February 27 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev , Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908 )
March 18 – Ivan Vinogradov , Russian mathematician (b. 1891 )
April 15 – Vera Faddeeva , Russian mathematician (b. 1906 )
May 22 – Albert Claude , Belgian biologist , co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 (b. 1898 )
August 2 – Edmund Jaeger , American naturalist (b. 1887 )
October 7 – George O. Abell , American astronomer (b. 1927 )
October 19 – Dorothy Stuart Russell , Australian-born British pathologist (b. 1895 )
October 24 – Elie Carafoli , Romanian aeronautical engineer (b. 1901 )
October 26 – Alfred Tarski , Polish American logician and mathematician (b. 1901 )
December 6 – Bruce Irons , English-born engineer and mathematician (b. 1924 ; suicide)
^ Barre-Sinoussi, F.; Chermann, J.C.; Rey, F.; Nugeyre, M.T.; Chamaret, S.; Gruest, J.; Dauguet, C.; Axler-Blin, C.; Vezinet-Brun, F.; Rouzioux, C.; Rozenbaum, W.; Montagnier, L. (1983). "Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)". Science . 220 (4599): 868–871. Bibcode :1983Sci...220..868B . doi :10.1126/science.6189183 . PMID 6189183 . S2CID 390173 .
^ Greener, Mark (2005). "MAbs Turn 30". The Scientist . 19 (3): 14–16.
^ Klotz S.A.; Drutz D.J.; Tam M.R.; Reed K.H. (1983). "Hemorrhagic proctitis due to lymphogranuloma venereum serogroup L2: Diagnosis by fluorescent monoclonal antibody". The New England Journal of Medicine . 308 (26): 1563–1565. doi :10.1056/NEJM198306303082604 . PMID 6602293 .
^ Hanukoglu I, Fuchs E (July 1983). "The cDNA sequence of a Type II cytoskeletal keratin reveals constant and variable structural domains among keratins" . Cell . 33 (3): 915–924. doi :10.1016/0092-8674(83)90034-X . PMID 6191871 . S2CID 21490380 .
^ Streb, H.; Irvine, R. F.; Berridge, M. J.; Schulz, I. (November 3, 1983). "Release of Ca2+ from a nonmitochondrial intracellular store in pancreatic acinar cells by inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate". Nature . 306 (5938): 67–9. Bibcode :1983Natur.306...67S . doi :10.1038/306067a0 . PMID 6605482 . S2CID 4359904 .
^ Chadabe, Joel (May 1, 2000). "The Electronic Century, Part IV: The Seeds of the Future" . Electronic Musician . 16 (5). Penton Media. Archived from the original on September 28, 2012. Retrieved November 28, 2012 .
^ On the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups .
^ Allen, Roy A. (2001). "Chapter 12: Microsoft in the 1980s" (PDF) . A History of the Personal Computer: the People and the Technology . Allan Publishing. pp. 12/25–12/26. ISBN 978-0-9689108-0-1 . Retrieved November 7, 2010 .
^ "Microsoft Office online, Getting to know you...again: The Ribbon" . Archived from the original on May 11, 2011. Retrieved June 8, 2011 .
^ "The history of branding, Microsoft history" . Archived from the original on May 28, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2011 .
^ Pollack, Andrew (August 25, 1983). "Computerizing Magazines" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on May 12, 2011. Retrieved June 8, 2011 .
^ Zetter, Kim (November 10, 2009). "This Day in Tech – Nov. 10, 1983: Computer 'Virus' Is Born" . Wired . Retrieved January 28, 2012 .
^ Maxime Crochemore ; Renaud Vérin (1997). On compact directed acyclic word graphs . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . pp. 192–211. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.13.6892 . doi :10.1007/3-540-63246-8_12 . ISBN 978-3-540-69242-3 . Wikidata Q90413885 .
^ Gorenstein, Daniel (1983). The classification of finite simple groups. Vol. 1. Groups of noncharacteristic 2 type . The University Series in Mathematics. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 978-0-306-41305-6 . MR 0746470 .
^ "About" . UCSF . Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
^ Charig, A. J.; Milner, A. C. (1986). "Baryonyx , a remarkable new theropod dinosaur". Nature . 324 (6095): 359–361. Bibcode :1986Natur.324..359C . doi :10.1038/324359a0 . PMID 3785404 . S2CID 4343514 .
^ Chang, Kenneth (July 5, 2022). "Fields Medals in Mathematics Won by Four Under Age 40" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on July 5, 2022. Retrieved July 5, 2022 .