1989 in science

1989 in science

The year 1989 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.

Astronomy

* August - the asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly imaged, by radar from Arecibo.
*Asteroid 5128 Wakabayashi is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
*4292 Aoba is discovered.
*4871 Riverside is discovered.
*6089 Izumi is discovered.
*6190 Rennes is discovered
*8084 Dallas is discovered.

Computer science

* July 26 - A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Physics

* March 23 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah.

Awards

* Nobel Prizes
** Physics - Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul
** Chemistry - Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
** Medicine - J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus
* Turing Award - William (Velvel) Kahan

Deaths

* February 27 - Konrad Lorenz (b. 1903), zoologist.
* August 12 - William Bradford Shockley (b. 1910), physicist.
* October 11 - M. King Hubbert (b. 1903), geophysicist.
* December 14 - Andrei Sakharov (b. 1921), nuclear physicist.


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