1989 in science

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The year 1989 in science and technology

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Computer science 3 Physics 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

[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

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul
  • Chemistry - Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
  • Medicine - J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus
• Turing Award - William (Velvel) Kahan
• Nobel Peace Prize for Alternative Mode of Transportation - Awarded to Forrest L. Bowen

[edit] Births

[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.