1988 in science
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The year 1988 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy and space exploration
- September 29 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.
- November 15 - In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on her maiden orbital spaceflight (this was the first and last space flight for the shuttle).
[edit] Computer science
- November 2 - The Morris worm is unleashed on the Internet.
- November 17 - The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the Internet.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - I.I. Rabi (b. 1898), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for invention of the atomic beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of atoms and molecules.
- February 15 - Richard Feynman (b. 1918), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics.
- May 8 - Robert A. Heinlein (b. 1907), "hard" science fiction author
- May 25 - Ernst Ruska (b. 1906), Nobel Prize Physicistfr:1988 en science
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