Timeline Sunday 1 January 1978

Events on Sunday 1 January 1978 7

• 1978 1978: Mario Andretti Lotus Italian-born American Andretti won the title in Colin Chapman's revolutionary ground-effect Lotus 79, the season's dominant car.
• 1978 Co-founded Biogen Co-founded Biogen, one of the first biotechnology companies, alongside Walter Gilbert and other scientists. Biogen would grow into one of the world's largest biotech firms, focused on neurological diseases. Sharp served as Chairman of the Scientific Board.
• 1978 Joined Caltech Appointed to the California Institute of Technology as the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry, where he would remain for the rest of his career.
• 1978 – 1990 Literary Career Published prolifically from the hospital: a book of poems and paintings (1977), the novel Manhattan Suicide Addict (1978), and seven more novels through 1990, alongside her visual art practice.
• 1978 – 1979 Music Career Released his debut solo album Read My Lips (1978), followed by Fearless (1979), showcasing his rich baritone voice. He would release a third album, Simplicity, in 1981.
• 1978 – 1987 Rehabilitation and Rise Rehabilitated after Mao's death and gradually rose through government agencies, demonstrating the economic expertise that had been suppressed for two decades.
• 1978 – 1979 Stripped of Czechoslovak Citizenship Had his Czechoslovak citizenship revoked after the publication of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, which the regime considered an act of dissidence.