Deaths
- January 14 – Kurt Gödel (b. 1906), American mathematician.
- March 9 – Gaston Julia (b. 1893), French mathematician.
- March 23 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer (b. 1893) Jewish biochemist.
- March 30 – Bill Hamilton (b. 1899), New Zealand mechanical engineer.
- March 31 – Charles Best (b. 1899), Canadian medical scientist.
- July 22 – André Chapelon (b. 1892), French steam locomotive designer.
- September 15 – Willy Messerschmitt (b. 1898), German aircraft engineer.
- November 15 – Margaret Mead (b. 1901), American cultural anthropologist.
Read more about this topic: 1978 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)