In 1978, White won an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his work as a whole.

McPherson won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his short story collection Elbow Room, becoming the first African-American to win the Pulitzer for fiction.

His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), On the Transmigration of Souls ( 2002 ), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ( for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 ), and Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.

* Fehrenbacher, Don Edward ( 1978 / 2001 ), The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, New York: Oxford, Pulitzer Prize in History.

When the Daily News ended its run in 1978, much of its staff, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, were moved to the Sun-Times.

His second collection, The Tale of Sunlight ( 1978 ), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

* Jane Smiley, 1992 Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres, MA, 1975 ; MFA, English, 1976 ; PhD, English, 1978.

* Jorie Graham, 1996 Pulitzer for The Dream of the Unified Field, MFA, English, 1978 ; former faculty member.

Richard Whitt of the Louisville Courier-Journal was awarded the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting for his articles on the fire.

She was awarded journalism's highest honor, a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, in 1978 and spent 20 years as the editorial page editor for the Washington Post and 25 years as a columnist for Newsweek.

* Dennis Barrie, " Interview with Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., January 11, 1978

Kennedy's works include The Ink Truck ( 1969 ), Legs ( 1975 ), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game ( 1978 ), Ironweed ( 1983, winner of 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ; film, 1987 ), and Roscoe ( 2002 ).

Along with the Pulitzer, Adams received over 500 awards, including the George Polk Award for News Photography in 1968, 1977 and 1978, and numerous awards from World Press Photo, NPPA, Sigma Delta Chi, Overseas Press Club, and many other organizations.

* Jeffrey Eugenides ( born 1960 ), Pulitzer Prize-winning author ( ULS, 1978 ).

MacNelly won his second Pulitzer and a Reuben Award in 1978, and then a second Reuben in 1979.

Maurice, its editor of many years until his retirement in 1978, won the Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial writing in 1958 and the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing in 1975.

It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1978.

Grants have come to him from the Guggenheim Foundation ( 1967 ), Pulitzer Foundation ( 1965 ), DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm ( 1981 – 1983 ), Vogelstein Foundation ( 1980 ), Fund for Investigative Journalism ( 1981 ), Pollock-Krasner Foundation ( 2001 ), CCLM ( 1981 ), ASCAP ( 1983 annually to the present ), American Public Radio Program Fund ( 1984 ), and the National Endowment for the Arts with ten individual awards ( 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991 ).

The CMB's serendipitous discovery in 1964 by American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson was the culmination of work initiated in the 1940s, and earned them the 1978 Nobel Prize.

* 1978 – Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yoji Yamada introduced the commercially successful Tora-San series, while also directing other films, notably the popular The Yellow Handkerchief, which won the first Japan Academy Prize for Best Film in 1978.

These include: In 1959 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; in 1967 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences ; the ACM's Turing Award for making " basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing " ( 1975 ); the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics " for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations " ( 1978 ); the National Medal of Science ( 1986 ); and the APA's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology ( 1993 ).

It was in this area that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1978.

* 1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1897 )

* Manne Siegbahn ( 1886 – 1978 ), Nobel Prize in Physics 1924.

* 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )

This process is called chemiosmosis, and was first described by Peter Mitchell who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work.

As a consequence of his outspoken support for Sadat's Camp David peace treaty with Israel in 1978, his books were banned in many Arab countries until after he won the Nobel Prize.

For the first isolation of a restriction enzyme, HindII, in 1970, and the subsequent discovery and characterization of numerous restriction endonucleases, the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber, and Hamilton O. Smith.

They also resulted in Sadat and Begin sharing the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.

* May 18 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 1978 )

** Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )

* August 24 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize ( d. 1978 )

** Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )

* December 3 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )

* International Pahlavi Environment Prize, United Nations ( 1978 )

In 1999, Zewail became the third Egyptian to receive the Nobel Prize, following Anwar Sadat ( 1978 in Peace ) and Naguib Mahfouz ( 1988 in Literature ).

In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later ( 1978 ), as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 1979.

* 1965 — Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, astronomers at Bell Labs discover the 2. 7 K microwave background radiation, which earns them the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The dilated artery stayed open until her death from pneumonia two and a half years later. Charles Dotter is commonly known as the " Father of Interventional Radiology " and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1978.

It won a Special Jury Award at the Cannes International Film Festival for best short film, and received an Academy Award nomination ( for best animated short film ), both in 1978.

A highly publicized candid interview on a Barbara Walters Special in December 1977 ( timed to coincide with Here You Come Agains release ) was followed by appearances in 1978 on Cher's ABC television special, and her own joint special with Carol Burnett on CBS, Carol and Dolly in Nashville.

* John Lafayette, in the 1978 ABC television special " A Home Run for Love " ( broadcast as an ABC Afterschool Special ).

* Critical Inquiry ( Autumn 1978 ) Special Issue: On Metaphors

She was nominated for a 1978 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Leading Actress in a Drama Series for her work on Little House on the Prairie and won the Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine ?, which aired as an ABC Afterschool Special in 1979.

He went on to star in the similarly-successful Star Wars sequels, The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 ) and Return of the Jedi ( 1983 ), as well as The Star Wars Holiday Special ( 1978 ).

She also hosted two television specials: Pure Goldie in 1971 and The Goldie Hawn Special in 1978.

Leia briefly appears in the 1978 TV movie The Star Wars Holiday Special, where she is once again portrayed by Fisher.

The character appeared on television several weeks later, animated by Nelvana Studios for The Star Wars Holiday Special ( 1978 ) as a mysterious figure who betrays Luke Skywalker ( voiced by Mark Hamill ) after saving him, Chewbacca, C-3PO ( voiced by Anthony Daniels ), and R2-D2 from a giant monster, only to be revealed as a bounty hunter working for Darth Vader.

At Christmas 1978, Wilson appeared on the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special.

* The Star Wars Holiday Special ( November 17, 1978 )

During his time in the Senate, he was chief author of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, served as chairman of the Committee on Governmental Affairs from 1987 until 1995, sat on the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees and the Special Committee on Aging.

* 1978 ( 51st ) Special Delivery-National Film Board of Canada-Eunice Macauley and John Weldon

* 1978: Emmy Award for " Best Actor — Drama or Comedy Special " for A Family Upside Down

The BDF was founded in 1978 following the disbanding of the Belize Volunteer Guard and the Police Special Force the year before.

Hal Foster was recognized for his work on the strip with the Banshees ' Silver Lady award in 1952, followed by the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1957, their Story Comic Strip Award in 1964, their Special Features Award in 1966 and 1967, the Gold Key award in 1977, and the Elzie Segar Award in 1978.

* James Hayter — Mr. Percival Tebbs — Series 6 and The 1978 Special

* The Honeymooners Valentine Special ( February 13, 1978 )

* The Second Honeymooners Christmas Special ( December 10, 1978 )

Towards the end of 1978, Jefferson Starship ( now without Grace Slick ) recorded " Light the Sky on Fire " for The Star Wars Holiday Special and their forthcoming greatest hits album Gold.

While working for the Warren anthologies, he received numerous Warren Awards: 1973 Best Artist / Writer and Special Award for Excellence, 1976 Best Art: Within You, Without You, Eerie # 77 and Best Cover: Eerie # 77 and 1978 Best Cover Artist.

His prominent films include La Notte ( 1961 ) with Jeanne Moreau ; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ( 1963 ), Marriage Italian-Style ( 1964 ), A Special Day ( 1977 ) and Ready to Wear ( 1994 ) with Sophia Loren ; The 10th Victim ( 1965 ) with Ursula Andress ; A Place for Lovers ( 1968 ) with Faye Dunaway ; It Only Happens to Others ( 1971 ) and La cagna ( 1972 ) with Catherine Deneuve ; Stay As You Are ( 1978 ) with Nastassja Kinski ; City of Women ( 1980 ); and Dark Eyes.

In 1978, Carney appeared in The Star Wars Holiday Special, a made-for-TV movie that was linked to the Star Wars film series.

* Special Delivery ( 1978 )

The Star Wars Holiday Special is a 1978 American television special set in the Star Wars galaxy.