1990 In Science

Astronomy and space exploration

• April 24 - The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.

Computer science

• November 12 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web. http://www.w3.org/Proposal
• November 13 - The first known web page is written. http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Link.html

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
• Physics - Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard Taylor
• Chemistry - Elias James Corey
• Medicine - Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas
• Turing Award - Fernando J. Corbat

Births

Deaths

• January 4 - Doc Edgerton, (b. 1903), professor electrical engineer.
• March 22 - Gerald Bull (b. 1928), engineer.
• March 24 - An Wang (b. 1922), computer designer.

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