1989 In Science

Astronomy

• August - the asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly imaged, by radar from Arecibo

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

Physics

• March 23 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah

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

Births

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.

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