1993 in science
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The year 1993 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy and space exploration
- December 2 - STS-61 is launched - This Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) installed corrective optics, plus upgrades, that not only allowed the telescope to focus properly, but also increased magnification/clarity beyond the original design: HST had been pre-designed for such future upgrades (see: continuous improvement).
[edit] Computer science
- March 22 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips
- March 31 - A bug in a program written by Richard Depew sends an article to 200 newsgroups simultaneously. The term spamming is coined by Joel Furr to describe the incident.
- April 22 - Release of version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser.
[edit] Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- Physics - Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
- Chemistry - Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
- Medicine - Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A Sharp
- Turing Award - Juris Hartmanis, Richard Stearns
- Wollaston Medal for Geology - Samuel Epstein
[edit] Deaths
- February 11 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)fr:1993 en science
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