In 1990 , there were various scientific and technological developments, some of which are presented below.
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Events
- April 24 - the largest space telescope Hubble is launched into orbit.
- September 5 - IBM for the first time announced the ESCON serial fiber-optic interface.
- November 12 - Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cayo of the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ) publish a formal proposal for the Hypertext Language and World Wide Web project; Soon, as part of this project, the world's first web browser , called
WorldWideWeb( WWW ; World Wide Web ), was developed.
Human Achievements
It was announced the launch of a project aimed at the complete decoding of the human genome .
Inventions
- Japanese Shuji Nakamura invented a cheap blue LED .
New animal species
- Animals described in 1990
Awards
- Nobel Prize
- Physics - Jerome Friedman , Henry Kendall , Richard Taylor - "For pioneering research on deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons , essential for the development of a quark model in particle physics."
- Chemistry - Elias James Corey - "For the development of the theory of the methodology of organic synthesis."
- Physiology and Medicine - Joseph Murray , Edward Donnall Thomas - "For his discoveries concerning the transplantation of organs and cells in the treatment of diseases."
- Baltsan Prize
- Geophysics of the Earth's Crust: James Freeman Gilbert (USA).
- Private international law: Pierre Laliv d'Épinay (Switzerland).
- Studies of the Ancient Mediterranean: Walter Burkert (Germany).
- Turing Award
- Corbato, Fernando José - “For his pioneering work on concept creation and development management for creating general-purpose, large-scale computer systems with time and resources sharing CTSS and Multics ”.
- Fields premium
- Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld ( USSR ).
- Edward Witten ( USA ).
- Sigefumi Mori ( Japan ).
- Won Jones ( New Zealand ).
- International Biology Prize
- Masakazu Konishi - biology of behavior.
- Other awards of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR :
- Literature:
- The Pushkin Award - for the work " Dictionary of the Russian language " [1] :
- Natalia Yulyevna Shvedova - Corresponding Member of the USSR AS, an employee of the Russian Language Institute of the USSR AS .
- Sergei Ivanovich Ozhegov - Doctor of Philology, Head of the Speech Culture Sector at the Institute of the Russian Language, USSR Academy of Sciences .
- The Pushkin Award - for the work " Dictionary of the Russian language " [1] :
- Literature:
Died to
- January 19 - Klavdia Alexandrovna Barkhatova , a Soviet astronomer.
- March 24 - Wang Anh , computer engineer and inventor , founder of the computer company Wang Laboratories . Chinese American.
- August 18 - Berres Frederick Skinner , professor of psychology at Harvard University , the creator of the practice of and the philosophy of .
See also
► 1990 in science
Notes
- ↑ RAS . The Pushkin Award. Awarded for outstanding work in the field of the Russian language and literature (List of winners). official site of RAS . - Data since 1971. The appeal date is February 15, 2014.