* In 1977, as a result of political backlash against his album Zombie Fela Kuti's mother was thrown from a window during a military raid on his compound, the Kalakuta Republic by 1, 000 Nigerian soldiers.

( 1946 ); “ Essentials for Nigeria ’ s Survival .” ( 1965 ); “ Before Us Lies The Open Grave ” ( 1947 ); “ The Future of Pan-Africanism ” ( 1961 ); “ The Realities of African Unity ” ( 1965 ); “ Origins of the Nigerian Civil War ” ( 1969 ); I Believe in a One Nigeria ( 1969 ); Peace Proposals for Ending the Nigerian Civil War ( 1969 ); Dialogue on a New Capital for Nigeria ( 1974 ); “ Creation of More States in Nigeria, A Political Analysis ” ( 1974 ); Democracy with Military Vigilance ( 1974 ); “ Reorientation of Nigerian Ideologies: lecture on 9 December 1976, on eve of the launching of the UNN Endowment Fund ” ( 1976 ); Our Struggle for Freedom ; Onitsha Market Crisis ( 1976 ); Let Us Forgive Our Children, An appeal to the leaders and people of Onitsha during the market crisis ( 1976 ); A Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); Civil War Soliloquies: More Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); “ Themes in African Social and Political Thought ” ( 1978 ); Restoration of Nigerian Democracy ( 1978 ); Matchless Past Performance: My Reply to Chief Awolowo ’ s Challenge ( 1979 ); A Matter of Conscience ( 1979 ); Ideology for Nigeria: Capitalism, Socialism or Welfarism?

The Nigerian Enterprises Promotion decrees of 1972 and 1977 further encouraged the growth of an indigenous middle class.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( born 15 September 1977 ) is a Nigerian writer.

* Olisa Agbakoba, class of 1977 ( Law ); Senior Advocate of Nigeria ; founder of Nigeria's foremost human rights organization, the Civil Liberties Organisation ( CLO ) and former president of the Nigerian Bar Association ( 2006-2008 )

During his career as a Foreign Service Officer, Tarnoff served as Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Edmund Muskie and Cyrus Vance ( 1977 – 1981 ); Director, Office of Research and Analysis for Western Europe ( 1975 – 76 ); Special Assistant to Ambassador-at-Large Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ( 1967 ); and Nigerian Analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research ( 1966 – 67 ).

Peter Ijeh ( born 28 March 1977 ) is a Nigerian football striker currently plays for GAIS in Allsvenskan.

E. Coker-1963 to 1977 ( First Nigerian principal of Queen's college )

The fact that genes were split or interrupted by introns was discovered independently in 1977 by Phillip Allen Sharp and Richard J. Roberts, for which they shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993.

* 1977 – Nominee, the Nobel Peace Prize, by US Representative Les Aspin.

* Bertil Ohlin ( 1899 – 1979 ), Nobel Prize in Economics 1977.

In 1977, introns and RNA splicing were discovered in both mammalian viruses and in cellular genes, resulting in a 1993 Nobel to Philip Sharp and Richard Roberts.

Professor Bertil Ohlin developed the Heckscher-Ohlin model, the standard international mathematical model of international trade ; received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1977.

Gunnar Myrdal received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974 ( shared with his ideological nemesis, Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek ); Bertil Ohlin received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977 ( shared with British economist James Meade ).

** Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1977 )

* September 26 – Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1977 )

* Friedman, Milton, Nobel lecture: Inflation and unemployment 1977

Aleixandre was a Nobel Prize laureate for Literature in 1977.

* Poesin blev min räddning ( 1977 ), documentary directed by Humberto López y Guerra about the Spanish Literature Nobel Prize Winner Vicente Aleixandre produced for Swedish Television TV1-Kultur

Schally and Guillemin shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine " for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain.

He was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1977 together with the British economist James Meade " for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements ".

Since then, Morrison has experimented with lyric fantasy, as in her two best-known later works, Song of Solomon ( 1977 ) and Beloved ( 1987 ), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ; along these lines, critic Harold Bloom has drawn favorable comparisons to Virginia Woolf, and the Nobel committee to " Faulkner and to the Latin American tradition magical realism.

* Bertil Ohlin, developed the Heckscher-Ohlin model on international trade and received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1977.

The term dissipative structure was coined by Russian-Belgian physical chemist Ilya Prigogine, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977 for his pioneering work on these structures.

For this study in irreversible thermodynamics, he received the Rumford Medal in 1976, and in 1977, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Prigogine is best known for his definition of dissipative structures and their role in thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium, a discovery that won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977.

In addition to the Nobel Prize, Borlaug received the 1977 U. S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, the 2002 Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, the 2002 Rotary International Award for World Understanding and Peace, and the 2004 National Medal of Science.

There were 17 in the years 1971 – 1980 ; 126 in 1981 – 1990 ; and 593 in 1991 – 2000 .</ ref > After Ilya Prigogine's 1977 Nobel Prize, the thermodynamic concept of self-organization

Sir Nevill Mott, Nobel Laureate in 1977 for his own contributions to solid-state electronics, remarked that " J. C. Bose was at least 60 years ahead of his time " and " In fact, he had anticipated the existence of P-type and N-type semiconductors.

These include Frederick Sanger, who was awarded the Copley Medal in 1977 " n recognition of his distinguished work on the chemical structure of proteins and his studies on the sequences of nucleic acids " and is one of four people to have won multiple Nobel Prizes, having won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1958 and 1980.

These include The Reivers by William Faulkner ( 1962 ), September, September by Shelby Foote ( 1977 ), The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor ( 1985 ), the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor ( 1986 ), The Firm ( 1991 ) and The Client ( 1993 ), both by John Grisham, Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway ( 1993 ), " Plague of Dreamers " by Steve Stern ( 1997 ) Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins ( 1999 ), The Guardian by Beecher Smith ( 1999 ), " We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon " by Corey Mesler ( 2005 ), The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and The Architect by James Williamson ( 2007 ).

It was founded in 1977 by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who sought to establish a counterpart to the Festival dei Due Mondi ( the Festival of Two Worlds ) in Spoleto, Italy.

Edgar Ansel Mowrer ( March 8, 1892 – March 2, 1977 ) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author best known for his writings on international events.

* 1977 – Alfian Sa ' at, Singaporean poet and playwright

She also received positive reviews, BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress, and an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of the playwright Lillian Hellman in the 1977 film Julia.

* Ivan Stodola, writer, playwright, and physician lived in Piešťany in 1953 – 1977

* Clouds ( play ), a 1977 philosophical comedic play by British playwright Michael Frayn

* Robert Evans ( writer ) ( born 1977 ), playwright and actor

* Miguel Mihura ( 1905 – 1977 ), Spanish absurdist playwright

In 1977, British playwright Tom Stoppard wrote the play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour that criticized the Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness.

Crouse married playwright David Mamet in 1977.

* Richard Pike Bissell ( 1913 – 1977 ), author / playwright

William Alexander Gerhardie ( 21 November 1895 – 15 July 1977 ) was a British ( Anglo-Russian ) novelist and playwright.

* Miguel Mihura ( the h is silent, 1905 – 1977 ), Spanish playwright

Shirley Graham Du Bois ( November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977 ) was an American award-winning author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes.

Alexander Galich (; 19 October 1918 – 15 December 1977 ) was a Russian poet, screenwriter, playwright, and singer-songwriter.

Carl Zuckmayer ( 27 December 1896 – 18 January 1977 ) was a German writer and playwright.

In 1977, the building was purchased by the Nederlander Organization, and was renamed in honor of American playwright Neil Simon on June 29, 1983 with the opening of his play Brighton Beach Memoirs.

Erik Wernquist ( born on 1 August 1977 ) is a Swedish actor, playwright and director.

The band took part in a 1977 TV show ‘ Here We Come A-Wasseling ’ and in 1978-9 collaborated with playwright Keith Dewhurst for a stage adaption of British author Flora Thompson ’ s Lark Rise to Candleford, tracks from which were released as an album in 1980.

Nicole duFresne ( January 5, 1977 – January 27, 2005 ) was a Minnesota-born playwright and actress.

Uncommon Women and Others ( 1977 ), is the first play by noted 20th century American playwright Wendy Wasserstein.