1988 in science

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The year 1988 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.

[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).
Canadian astronomers Bruce Campbell, G. A. H. Walker and Stephenson Yang publish radial-velocity observations suggesting that an extrasolar planet orbits the star Gamma Cephei,^[1] although its existence is not confirmed until 2003.
Asteroid 3994 Ayashi is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
4407 Taihaku is discovered.
4539 Miyagino is discovered.

NASA climate scientist James Hansen uses the term global warming in testimony to the United States Congress^[2] bringing it to public attention.^[3]

November 2 – The Morris worm is unleashed on the Internet.
November 17 – The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the Internet.^{[citation needed]}

May 1 – The initial case definition of Chronic fatigue syndrome (the "Holmes definition") is published, displacing the name Chronic Epstein-Barr virus syndrome.^[4]^[5]
Patricia Bath patents the Laserphaco Probe, a device "for ablating and removing cataract lenses".^[6]^[7]

January 11 – I.I. Rabi (born 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 (born 1918), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics.
May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein (born 1907), "hard" science fiction author
May 25 – Ernst Ruska (born 1906), Nobel Prize Physicist
December 21 – Nikolaas Tinbergen (born 1907), Dutch-born ethologist, ornithologist and Nobel Prize laureate.

^ Campbell, B. .; Walker, G. A. H.; Yang, S. . (15 August 1988). "A search for substellar companions to solar-type stars". Astrophysical Journal 331: 902–921. Bibcode 1988ApJ...331..902C. DOI:10.1086/166608. edit
^ U.S. Senate, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, "Greenhouse Effect and Global Climate Change, part 2" 100th Cong., 1st sess., 23 June 1988, p. 44: "global warming has reached a level such that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and the observed warming."
^ Conway, Erik (2012-01-28). "What's in a Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html.
^ Holmes, Gary P. et al. (1988). "Chronic fatigue syndrome: a working case definition". Annals of Internal Medicine 108 (3): 387–9. PMID 2829679.
^ Campling, Frankie; Sharpe, Michael (2000). Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME). Oxford University Press. pp. 14–15. ISBN 0-19-263049-0. http://books.google.com/?id=_LqAIK616lgC&pg=PA14. Retrieved 2008-04-02.
^ Wilson, Donald; Wilson, Jane (2003). The Pride of African American History. AuthorHouse. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-4107-2873-9.
^ Henderson, Susan K. (1998). African-American Inventors III. Capstone Press. pp. 9–13. ISBN 978-1-56065-698-2.