1983

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988

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Births

Deaths

• Buckminster Fuller, American architect

Events

• Barbara McClintock recieves Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the first transposons in corn (zea mays) in 1940.

• Democratic reform in power in Argentina.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler

• Chemistry - Henry Taube

• Medicine - Barbara McClintock

• Literature -William Golding

• Peace - Lech Walesa

• Economics - Gerard Debreu