1981 in science
Space
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12 - April 14th: First flight of the American space shuttle Columbia.
- August 25th: The American probe To travel 2 approach Saturn to its maximum, and sends images of Saturn and its satellites.
Data processing
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August 12th IBM puts on sale its first Personal computer, its operating system MS-DOS is signed by Microsoft which capped with the post DIGITAL Research and its DR-DOS.
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Appearance of the first laptop.
- Xerox Corporation produces the computer Star with mouse and fenestration.
- commercial Failure of the data-processing work station Viola , launched by Xerox. It uses an graphical interface including/understanding of the icons, the windows, of the menus, a mouse.
Biology and medicine
- December: First American Baby test-tube.
Price
- Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine: Roger Sperry, David Hubel (American), Torsten Wiesel (Swedish)
- Nobel Prize of chemistry: Kenichi Fukui (Japanese), Roald Hoffmann (Polish)
- Nobel Prize of physics: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Kai Siegbahn
- Turing Price in data processing: Edgar Frank Codd ( management systems of Databases, in particular those relational )
- Medal Wollaston: Robert Minard Garrels
Death
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