1993 in science

1993 in science

The year 1993 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

* December 2 - STS-61 is launched - This Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) installed corrective optics, plus upgrades, that not only allowed the telescope to focus properly, but also increased magnification/clarity beyond the original design: HST had been pre-designed for such future upgrades (see: continuous improvement).
* Asteroid 30963 Mount Banzan is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.

Computer science

* March 22 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips
* March 31 - A bug in a program written by Richard Depew sends an article to 200 newsgroups simultaneously. The term spamming is coined by Joel Furr to describe the incident.
* April 22 - Release of version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser.

Awards

* Nobel Prizes
** Physics - Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
** Chemistry - Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
** Medicine - Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp
* Turing Award - Juris Hartmanis, Richard Stearns
* Wollaston Medal for Geology - Samuel Epstein

Deaths

* February 11 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)

Organisations

*CERN: Czechia and Slovakia join CERN.


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