1976 in science

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The year 1976 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

June 18 – Gravity Probe A, a satellite-based experiment to test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, is launched.
July 20 – Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
July 31 – NASA releases the famous 'Face on Mars' photograph, taken by Viking 1
August 7 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
September 3 – Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars and takes the first close-up color photographs of the planet's surface.
September 17 – Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out.

Oberlin, Endo and Koyama publish evidence of the creation of carbon nanotubes using a vapor-growth technique.^[1]^[2]

January – The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research.
April 1 – Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and the latter begins assembling its first personal computer hobbyists kits for sale later in the year in the U.S.
November 26 – Little-known company Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.

An asymmetric-key cryptosystem is published by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman who disclose the Diffie–Hellman key exchange method of public-key agreement for public-key cryptography.

The Ebolavirus first emerges in outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Zaire and Sudan.^[5]
The term Münchausen syndrome by proxy is first coined by John Money and June Faith Werlwas.^[6]^[7]

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January 19 – Hidetsugu Yagi (b. 1886), Japanese electrical engineer
February 1
- Werner Heisenberg (b. 1901), German theoretical physicist.
- George Whipple (b. 1878), American pathologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934.
April 21 – Carl Benjamin Boyer (b. 1906), American historian of mathematics.
May 31 – Jacques Monod (b. 1910), French biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
August 18 – Shintaro Uda (b. 1886), Japanese electrical engineer.
October 5 – Lars Onsager (b. 1903), Norwegian American chemist.
November 5 – Willi Hennig (b. 1913), German entomologist and pioneer of cladistics.

^ Oberlin, A.; Endo, M.; Koyama, T. (1976). "Filamentous growth of carbon through benzene decomposition". Journal of Crystal Growth. 32 (3): 335–349. Bibcode:1976JCrGr..32..335O. doi:10.1016/0022-0248(76)90115-9. Retrieved 2012-02-03. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
^ Endo, Morinobu; Dresselhaus, M. S. (2002). "Carbon Fibers and Carbon Nanotubes" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-02-03.
^ "11st July 1976 – Last slide rule manufactured today". Computing History. The Centre for Computing History. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
^ ^a ^b Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
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^ Money, John (1976). "Folie à deux in the parents of psychosocial dwarfs: two cases". Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law. 4 (4): 351–362. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
^ Money, John (1986). "Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy: Update". Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 11 (4): 583–584. doi:10.1093/jpepsy/11.4.583. PMID 3559846. Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2012-02-17. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)