- 1988 in science
The year 1988 in
science andtechnology involved many significant events, some listed below.Astronomy and space exploration
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September 29 -NASA resumesspace shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.
*November 15 - In theSoviet Union , the uncrewed Shuttle "Buran" is launched by anEnergia rocket on her maidenorbit al spaceflight (this was the first and last space flight for the shuttle).
*Asteroid 3994 Ayashi is discovered byMasahiro Koishikawa .
*4407 Taihaku is discovered.
*4539 Miyagino is discovered.Computer science
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November 2 - TheMorris worm is unleashed on theInternet .
*November 17 -The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to theInternet .Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -Leon M. Lederman ,Melvin Schwartz ,Jack Steinberger
** Chemistry -Johann Deisenhofer ,Robert Huber ,Hartmut Michel
** Medicine - SirJames W. Black ,Gertrude B. Elion ,George H. Hitchings
*Turing Award -Ivan Sutherland Births
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Deaths
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January 11 -I.I. Rabi (b. 1898), Americanphysicist , winner ofNobel Prize in Physics in1944 for invention of the atomic beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties ofatom s andmolecule s.
*February 15 -Richard Feynman (b. 1918), Americanphysicist , winner ofNobel Prize in Physics in1965 for his work onquantum electrodynamics .
*May 8 -Robert A. Heinlein (b. 1907), "hard"science fiction author
*May 25 -Ernst Ruska (b. 1906), Nobel Prize Physicist
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