- 1990 in science
The year 1990 in
science andtechnology involved many significant events, some listed below.Astronomy and space exploration
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April 24 - The Space Shuttle "Discovery" places theHubble Space Telescope intoorbit .Computer science
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November 12 -Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for theWorld Wide Web . [http://www.w3.org/Proposal]
*November 13 - The first known web page is written. [http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Link.html]Awards
*Fields Prize in Mathematics:
Vladimir Drinfeld ,Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones ,Shigefumi Mori andEdward Witten
*Nobel Prize s
** 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
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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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