1988 in science

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The year 1988 in science and technology

Contents 1 Astronomy and space exploration 2 Computer science 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[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

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
  • Chemistry - Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
  • Medicine - Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
• Turing Award - Ivan Sutherland

[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 Physicist