* Matthew S. Anderson, Peter the Great ( London: Thames and Hudson, 1978 ).

It was not until 1997, however, that a direct experiment, by S. Lamoreaux, described above, quantitatively measured the force ( to within 15 % of the value predicted by the theory ), although previous work van Blockland and Overbeek ( 1978 ) had observed the force qualitatively, and indirect validation of the predicted Casimir energy had been made by measuring the thickness of liquid Helium films by Sabisky and Anderson in 1972.

Of country music artists, Connie Smith covered Andy Gibb's " I Just Want to Be Your Everything " in 1977, Bill Anderson did " Double S " in 1978, and Ronnie Milsap covered Tommy Tucker's " High Heel Sneakers " in 1979.

* 1978 – Anderson da Silva Gibin, Brazilian footballer

* 1978 – Brooke Anderson, American journalist and producer

* 1978 – Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer

With the death of company founder and first CEO Willard Rockwell in 1978, and the stepping down of his son Willard Rockwell, Jr. in 1979 as the second CEO, Bob Anderson became CEO and led the company through the 1980s when it became the largest U. S. defense contractor and largest NASA contractor.

1978: Bellanca Aircraft becomes a subsidiary of Anderson Greenwood

In 1978, Anderson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and natural science from Trinity College, Cambridge, and subsequently received a qualification in computer engineering.

The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Anderson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1978, the National Medal of Arts in 1986, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.

* John Anderson ( hurler ) ( born 1978 ), Irish hurler

When the aging Reds finished second to the Dodgers in each of the next two seasons, Anderson was fired on November 27, 1978 by general manager Dick Wagner, who had taken over for Howsam a year earlier.

Born in Sayre, during the height of the Great Depression, 10 September 1934, Anderson along with Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman were the first people to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon, the Double Eagle II, in 1978.

McGrath also co-wrote Black Cinderella Two Goes East with Clive Anderson for BBC Radio 2 in 1978.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

On tour in 1978, Brown and his band ( now with additional members Keith Anderson, drums, Joe Guzzo, guitar, Mike Hllinger, keyboards and Wildflower, background vocals ) played venues as diverse as New York's Bottom Line and Madison Square Garden.

Boschwitz was elected as an Independent-Republican to the United States Senate in November 1978 and was subsequently appointed on December 30, 1978, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wendell Anderson.

Playwright Royce Ryton wrote I Am Who I Am about Anna Anderson in 1978.

The daughter of the children's TV presenter Johnny Ball and his wife Julia ( née Anderson, divorced when Zoë was two ), Ball was educated at Heston Junior School in west London between 1975 and 1978.

* Robert P. Anderson ( 1906 – 1978 ), United States judge

* 1978 — Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Richard Rodgers, and Arthur Rubinstein

* A. C. Cawley and J. J. Anderson, ed., " Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight " ( London, 1978 )

Although some of the original players departed the team, some extended the Big Red Machine nickname for two more years until the departures of Anderson and Rose following the 1978 season.

The band performed on part of the 1996 Lollapalooza tour in the rotating Mystery Spot, with a setlist largely composed of material from their heyday between 1978 and 1982.

On October 17, 2008, Devo performed a special concert at the Akron Civic Theater, their first in Akron since 1978, to promote Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

In January 1978 they toured New Zealand and performed at the Nambassa festival.

Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979 Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times.

Taking off with the public as a legitimate musical act, they performed live gigs and released the hit album Briefcase Full of Blues in 1978, and were further popularized in a 1980 film.

One of the longer-lived of these was a band called The Craze, which performed a few times around Northampton in 1978.

* Bruce Springsteen has performed at the Garden 29 times in his career, beginning in 1978 with the Darkness Tour.

In 1978 the two performed a stage version of the show at the London Palladium ; lasting for three months, it followed the same format as the show, with old sketches and some new material, supported by variety acts.

* ISEE-3 – 12 August 1978 – Solar wind investigations ; later redesignated International Cometary Explorer and performed Comet Giacobini-Zinner and Comet Halley flybys – First comet flyby

* Alan Cantwell, in self-published books entitled AIDS and the Doctors of Death: An Inquiry into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic and Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot, says that HIV is a genetically modified organism developed by U. S. Government scientists and that it was introduced into the population through Hepatitis B experiments performed on gay and bisexual men between 1978 – 1981 in major U. S. cities.

Jacques Brel (; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978 ) was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world.

The pair performed Norman's 1978 song " Watch What You're Doing.

* Donna Vivino ( born 1978 ), stage and screen actress, who has performed the starring role of Elphaba in the Broadway National Tour production of Wicked.

* Chris Opperman ( born 1978 ), modern composer who performed on Steve Vai's Grammy-nominated composition " Lotus Feet " grew up in Clifton and attended CHS.

* The song is performed by The Bee Gees and George Burns in the 1978 film Sgt.

* The World's Greatest Lover ( 1978 ) song " Ain't It Kinda Wonderful " performed

Born and raised in Hermosa Beach, California, he formed Black Flag at the age of 21 with guitarist Greg Ginn and performed on the band's 1978 debut EP Nervous Breakdown.

In 1978, Gibb performed on the Sesame Street Fever album for the Sesame Street children's TV program.

He was also a guest star on a memorable episode of The Muppet Show in 1978, in which he performed his signature song " Day-O " on television for the first time.

An enormously successful series, the last episode in 1978 was performed in front of the Queen.

Xenakis frequently gave lectures ( for instance, from 1975 to 1978 he was Professor of Music at Gresham College, London, giving free public lectures ), taught composition ( notable students include Pascal Dusapin, Henning Lohner, and Miguel Ángel Coria ), and his works were performed at numerous festivals worldwide, including, for instance, the Shiraz Arts Festival in Iran.

In France in the early 70s, Jean-Jacques Birgé performed on a toy-piano, besides synthesizers, and recorded it in " Le réveil " on his Défense de album in 1975, as Pascal Comelade built all his work on toy instruments, having played all kinds of toy pianos himself since 1978.

Modern, academically sound archaeological excavations were performed from 1978 through the 1990s by University of Chicago anthropologist Alan Kolata and his Bolivian counterpart, Oswaldo Rivera.

The live tracks were a faux live cover of The Beatles ' " Day Tripper ", and " Can't Hold On ", a bluesy track performed at Budokan concerts in 1978.