1989 in science
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The year 1989 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- August - the asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly imaged, by radar from Arecibo.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Physics
- March 23 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah.
[edit] Awards
[edit] 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.fr:1989 en science
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