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1990 in science

The year 1990 in science and technology

Astronomy and space exploration

  • April 24 - The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.

    Computer science

  • November 12 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web. [1]
  • November 13 - The first known web page is written. [1]

    Awards

  • Nobel Prizes
  • * Physics - Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard Taylor
  • * Chemistry - Elias James Corey
  • * Medicine - Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas
  • Turing Award - Fernando J. Corbató

    Births

    Deaths

  • January 4 - Doc Edgerton, (b. 1903), professor electrical engineer.
  • March 22 - Gerald Bull (b. 1928), engineer.
  • March 24 - An Wang (b. 1922), computer designer.


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