1992 in science

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The year 1992 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.

Astronomy

• First confirmed detection of extrasolar planets with the discovery of several terrestrial-mass planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail.
• Asteroid 5751 Zao is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.

Mathematics

• International Society for Bayesian Analysis founded by Arnold Zellner.

Medicine

• October - First Cochrane Centre opens (in the UK) and the first Cochrane Review Groups (Pregnancy & Childbirth and Subfertility) are registered.
• October 29 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.

Physics

• Hungary becomes a member of CERN.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics: Georges Charpak
  • Chemistry: Rudolph A. Marcus
  • Medicine: Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
• Turing Award: Butler Lampson
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Martin Harold Phillips Bott

Deaths

• January 1 - Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (b. 1906), American pioneer computer scientist.
• April 6 - Isaac Asimov (b. 1920), American science author.
• April 10 - Peter D. Mitchell (b. 1920), English Nobel laureate in chemistry.
• August 26 - Daniel Gorenstein (b. 1923), American mathematician.
• November 5 - Jan Oort (b. 1900), Dutch astronomer.