The award's only tie occurred in the National League in 1979, when Keith Hernandez and Willie Stargell received an equal number of points.

Thirty years later, on March 6, 2009, Philips received an IEEE Milestone award with the following citation: " On 8 March 1979, N. V. Philips ' Gloeilampenfabrieken demonstrated for the international press a Compact Disc Audio Player.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

White's rework of the book was extremely well received, and further editions of the work followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999 ; an illustrated edition followed in 2005.

GMUSL began operations in that building on July 1, 1979 and received provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1980.

Single-party presidential and legislative elections were held in June 1979, and Gen. Moussa Traoré received 99 % of the votes.

Single-party presidential and legislative elections were held in June 1979, and Gen. Moussa Traoré received 99 % of the votes.

In 1979, Gorbachev was promoted to the Politburo, the highest authority in the country, and received full membership in 1980.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

In 1979 he received his Ph. D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, with a thesis entitled Secrecy, authentication and public key systems.

He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men ( 1946 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.

Parks received national recognition, including the NAACP's 1979 Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall.

He remained in the area and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Hartwick College in 1979.

Le Guin has received five Hugo awards and six Nebula awards, and was awarded the Gandalf Grand Master award in 1979 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2003.

In 1979 foreign owners were dispossessed and received compensation from their own governments and a date was set for full independence.

He has received two Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards — for playing Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman ( National Theatre, 1979 ) and as best supporting actor in a 2003 performance of The Price, also by Miller.

He received his Ph. D. from Makerere University in 1979.

In addition to the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962, which he shared with John Kendrew for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins, Max Perutz received a number of other important honors: he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963, received the Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst in 1967, the Royal Medal in 1971, the Copley Medal in 1979, the Companions of Honour in 1975, and the Order of Merit in 1989.

Everything came to a head in 1979 when Chrysler's new chairman, Lee Iacocca, requested and received federal loan guarantees from the United States Congress in an effort to save the company from having to file bankruptcy.

These films in particular, as well as others including Play Misty for Me ( 1971 ), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ( 1974 ), The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 ), Tightrope ( 1984 ), Pale Rider ( 1985 ), Heartbreak Ridge ( 1986 ), In the Line of Fire ( 1993 ), The Bridges of Madison County ( 1995 ), and Gran Torino ( 2008 ), have all received commercial success and critical acclaim.

He received a BA degree in psychology at McGill University in 1976, and then went on to earn his PhD degree in experimental psychology at Harvard University in 1979.

In 1976, he received the World Science Fiction Society's Gandalf Grand Master award for lifetime achievement in fantasy writing ; he was designated a SFWA Grandmaster in 1979.

As the writer Don Atyeo has explained in his study of Violence in Sport ( 1979 ), ' Boxiana is riddled with " Fancy " slang: '" Ogles " were blackened, " peepers " plunged into darkness, " tripe-shops " received " staggerers ", " ivories " were cracked, " domino boxes " shattered, and " claret " flowed in a steady stream.

Stroustrup has a master's degree in mathematics and computer science ( 1975 ) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a Ph. D. in computer science ( 1979 ) from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was a student at Churchill College.

He was awarded an honorary Ph. D. by Rhode Island College in 1979 and another from Elizabethtown College in 1985.

before moving on to Warwick for his Ph. D. His career had taken him to Hull, Institute for Advanced Study, Swansea and St Catherine's College, Oxford before becoming a professor at the University of Edinburgh in 1979 where he remained until retiring from the post in 2005.

* DeBow Freed, Ph. D. — ninth president, 1974 – 1979

The Rete algorithm was designed by Dr Charles L. Forgy of Carnegie Mellon University, first published in a working paper in 1974, and later elaborated in his 1979 Ph. D. thesis and a 1982 paper ( see References ).

" Ph. D. Thesis, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1979.

She studied Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, eventually earning her Ph. D. in 1979.

Kristol received a Ph. D. in government from Harvard in 1979.

Dr. Fabelo received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1977, a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979 and a Ph. D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984.

( 1975 ) and his Ph. D. ( 1979 ) from Indiana University.

* Searle, Howard C., " Early Mormon Historiography: Writing the History of the Mormons ," Ph. D. Dissertation, UCLA, 1979. pp. 270ff.

Francis was educated at the Johns Hopkins University ( Bachelor of Arts, 1969 ) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC ), from which he received a Ph. D. in modern history in 1979.

Howells later obtained a Ph. D. from the University of Warwick in 1979, for a thesis entitled A view from below: tradition, experience and nationalism in the South Wales coalfield, 1937-1957.

As a student of Allen Newell, he received his Ph. D. in 1979 based on the Rete algorithm.

Unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, Princeton University, January 1979.

Balling gained bachelors and masters degrees in geography in 1974 ( Wittenberg University, BA ) and 1975 ( Bowling Green State University, MA ), before gaining his Ph. D. in geography from the University of Oklahoma in 1979.

After Leslie earned his Ph. D. in 1979, he served as a post doctoral research associate at Purdue University studying fluid vortex dynamics.

* 1979 Ronald Estabrook, Ph. D. ( emeritus )

He joined the professorate in space, aviation and naval medicine at the Institute for Biomedical Problems in 1978 and received a Ph. D. in these disciplines in 1979.

She attained her Ph. D. in 1979 from Stanford University, with her dissertation Linguistic Capabilities of a Lowland Gorilla, on teaching sign language to Koko and Michael, another Lowland Gorilla, who died in 2000.

After Dr. Thornton earned her Ph. D. at the University of Virginia in 1979, she was awarded a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue her research at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany.

in Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1972, and his Ph. D. in physics in 1979 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.