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1979
23 January 1979 discovery of 3040 Kozai
4 March 1979 discovery of Metis
6 March 1979 discovery of 4168 Millan
25 April 1979 discovery of 2656 Evenkia
31 May 1979 discovery of 2672 Pısek
25 June 1979 discovery of 2618 Coonabarabran 2619 Skalnate Pleso and 2628 Kopal
22 August 1979 discovery of 3005 Pervictoralex
27 August 1979 discovery of 3012 Minsk
29 August 1979 discovery of 2320 Blarney
30 August 1979 discovery of 2613 Plzen
23 September 1979 discovery of 2657 Bashkiria and 3013 Dobrovoleva
24 September 1979 discovery of 3006 Livadia
11 October 1979 discovery of 3014 Huangsushu
17 October 1979 discovery of 3007 Reaves
19 October 1979 discovery of 5363 Kupka
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2 May 1979 Death of Giulio Natta
16 May 1979 Death of William Finsen in Johannesburg, South Africa
6 October 1979 Death of Dudley Ernest Littlewood
1979 Death of Werner Forssman
1979 Death of Sidnie Milana Manton
1979 Death of Ida Noddack
1979 Death of Immanuel Velikovsky
1979 Death of Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin
Nobel Prize
Physics to Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current"
Chemistry to Herbert Charles Brown and Georg Wittig "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis"
Physiology or Medicine to Allan M. Cormack and Godfrey N. Hounsfield "for the development of computer assisted tomography"
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