1991 in science

1991 in science

The year 1991 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

* October 29 - the Galileo probe becomes the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid.
* Asteroid 6859 Datemasamune is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
* 11514 Tsunenaga is discovered.

Chemistry

* Carbon nanotubes discovered by Sumio Iijima

Computer science

* February 26 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces the web browser.
* September 17 - Linus Torvalds introduces the Linux kernel version 0.01.

Awards

* Nobel Prizes
** Physics - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
** Chemistry - Richard R. Ernst
** Medicine - Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
* Turing Award - Robin Milner

Births

Deaths

* January 30 - John Bardeen (b. 1908), physicist, co-inventor of the transistor. Only physicist to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
* March 1 - Edwin H. Land (b. 1909), inventor and founder of Polaroid.

Organisations

*CERN: Finland and Poland join CERN.


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