The year 1981 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
Biology
Chemistry
Computer science
Mathematics
Medicine
Space exploration
Technology
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 5
- Frederick Osborn (b. 1889), American philanthropist and eugenicist.
- Harold Urey (b. 1893), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- February 26 â Jennie Smillie Robertson (b. 1878), Canadian gynecological surgeon.
- March 8 â Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist (b. 1894)
- March 9 â Max Delbrück (b. 1906), German biologist.
- March 11 â Kazimierz Kordylewski (b. 1903), Polish astronomer.
- March 23 â Beatrice Tinsley (b. 1941), English astronomer.
- April 3 â Leo Kanner (b. 1894), Austrian American clinical child psychiatrist.
- May 11 â Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- July 4 - Niels Erik Nørlund (b. 1885), Danish mathematician.
- July 27 â Elizabeth Rona (b. 1890), Hungarian American nuclear chemist.
- July 31 â Ernest Melville DuPorte (b. 1891), Black Canadian insect morphologist.
- September 8 â Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
- September 9 â Jacques Lacan (b. 1901), French psychoanalyst.
- November 15 â Walter Heitler (b. 1904), German physicist<br>Fellow of the Royal Society
- November 17
- Wilhelm Pelikan (b. 1893), Austrian chemist.
- Sibyl M. Rock (b. 1909), American mathematician.
- November 22 â Hans Krebs (b. 1900), German medical doctor and biochemist; discoverer of the citric acid cycle.
- December 6 â Harry Harlow (b. 1905), American psychologist.
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