* 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

The inflationary hypothesis was originally proposed in 1980 by American physicist Alan Guth, who named it " inflation ".

* 1902 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was a contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use and share documents.

** Pascual Jordan, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel ForMemRS ( August 9, 1896, Berlin – February 16, 1980, Marburg ) was a German physicist and physical chemist.

* Kurt Mendelssohn ( 1906 – 1980 ), German-born British medical physicist, descendant of Moses's brother Saul Mendelssohn

John William Mauchly ( August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980 ) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.

This so-called " Project Aquarius " Teletype message had been given to Albuquerque physicist and businessman Paul Bennewitz in November, 1980, by U. S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations counterintelligence officer Richard C. Doty.

* James W. Cronin – physicist, 1980 Nobel Prize laureate

* October 15-C. P. Snow ( died 1980 ), physicist and novelist

Notable scientists among Stuyvesant alumni include mathematician Paul Cohen ( 1950 ), string theorist Brian Greene ( 1980 ), physicist Lisa Randall ( 1980 ), and genomic researcher Eric Lander ( 1974 ).

Raymond Thayer Birge ( March 13, 1887 – March 22, 1980 ) was a physicist.

* October 23-Hans Ferdinand Mayer ( died 1980 ), German physicist.

As a junior particle physicist, Guth first developed the idea of cosmic inflation in 1979 at Cornell and gave his first seminar on the subject in January 1980.

* Larkin Kerwin, Canadian physicist, President of National Research Council Canada ( 1980 – 1989 ) and the Canadian Space Agency ( 1989 – 1992 )

In 1980, she returned to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she was employed as a physicist at the United States Army Foreign Science and Technology Center.

She is an alumna of Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1980, where she was a classmate of fellow physicist and science popularizer Brian Greene.

James Leslie Tuck OBE, ( January 9, 1910 – December 15, 1980 ) was a British physicist.

* ( 1980 ) " Alfred Otto Carl Nier, American physicist ", in

Professor Aleksander Jabłoński ( born 26 February 1898 in Woskresenówka, in Ukraine, died 9 September 1980 in Skierniewice, Poland ) was a Polish physicist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay or Delone (; March 15, 1890 – July 17, 1980 ) was one of the first Russian mountain climbers and a Soviet / Russian mathematician, and the father of physicist Nikolai Borisovich Delone.

( Ernst ) Pascual Jordan ( 18 October 1902 – 31 July 1980 ) was a theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.

* 1980 – Luis Scola, Argentinean basketball player

* 1898 – Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess master ( b. 1905 )

Among the Montoneros killed in this operation were Luis Francisco Goya and María Lourdes Martínez Aranda who after crossing the Chilean border into Argentina were abducted in the city of Mendoza in 1980 and never seen again, with their son Jorge Guillermo being adopted and raised by an army NCO, Luis Alberto Tejada and his wife Raquel Quinteros.

** Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician ( d. 1980 )

* 1980 – Physicist Luis Alvarez, his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, and others propose that the impact of a large extraterrestrial object caused the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 65 million years ago.

In 1980, a Caribbean hub was inaugurated at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport ( known at the time as " Isla Verde International Airport ") near San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The 1979 contest remained inconclusive because, no candidate having received the necessary 50 % of the vote, Congress had to determine the president, and it could not agree on any one candidate ; the 1980 election would have led to the possession of Hernán Siles, was it not for the bloody coup of July 17, 1980, which installed a reactionary ( and cocaine-tainted ) dictatorship led by general Luis García Meza.

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 ).

* Interview with Jorge Luis Borges, 25 April 1980, discussing Browne

One impetus for this change came from the publication of a historic paper by Walter and Luis Alvarez in 1980.

Some of the Native playes were: David Vera 1979, Rigoberto Guiyoti 1979, Modesto 1980, Luis Vera 1980, Carlos Vera 1980,

* 1980 — Luis Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel propose the Alvarez hypothesis, that a comet or asteroid struck the Earth 65 million years ago causing the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, including the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, and enriching the iridium in the K – T boundary.

* Luis de Pablo: Tornasol ( 1980 – 81 )

* Luis Rodríguez ( baseball ) ( born 1980 ), baseball player from Venezuela

Despite entering the union through sport, he had been influenced in joining it by wider events ; in 1980, the far-right General Luis García Meza seized power in a military coup, banned other political parties and subsequently declared himself president in what observers widely declared a dictatorship.

However, there is some Amerindian heritage among prior Bolivian presidents, such as Andrés de Santa Cruz ( 1829 — who claimed that through his mother he was descended from Inca rulers, Mariano Melgarejo ( 1864 ), Carlos Quintanilla ( 1939 ), René Barrientos ( 1964 ), Juan José Torres ( 1976 ), Luis García Meza ( 1980 ), and Celso Torrelio ( 1981 ).

* Carlos Luis Campos ( born 1980 ), Venezuelan boxer

Bayamón City Hall was inaugurated in 1980 by Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera.

< td > Luis Muñoz Marín ( 1898 – 1980 ), was the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico.