1994 in science
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The year 1994 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy and space exploration
- July 16-July 22 - The fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter
- July 21 R. Ibata, M. Irwin, and G. Gilmore discover the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It was considered the closest galaxy to the Milky Way from its discovery until 2003. [1]
- October 12 - NASA lost contact with the Magellan spacecraft after a successful mission. The probe crashed into Venus shortly after.
[edit] Archaeology
- March 31 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).
[edit] Technology
- May 6 - The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers over seven years to complete, opens between England and France. Travelers can now travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.
[edit] Awards
- Fields Prize in Mathematics: Efim Isakovich Zelmanov, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean Bourgain and Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
- Nobel Prizes
- Turing Award - Edward Feigenbaum, Raj Reddy
- Wollaston Medal for Geology - William Jason Morgan
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 25 - Stephen Cole Kleene (b. 1909), mathematician.
- July 29 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (b. 1910), chemist.
- August 19 - Linus Pauling (b. 1901), American chemist.fr:1994 en science
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