1989 in science
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The year 1989 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
Astronomy
- August – Asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly imaged, by radar from Arecibo.
- August 25 – The Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, providing definitive proof of the planet's rings.
- September 5 – Pluto–Charon barycentre comes to perihelion.[1]
- Asteroid 5128 Wakabayashi is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
- 4292 Aoba is discovered.
- 4871 Riverside is discovered.
- 6089 Izumi is discovered.
- 6190 Rennes is discovered
- 8084 Dallas is discovered.
Biology
- Discovery of the cystic fibrosis trans-membrane conductance regulator gene.[2]
- The New Zealand Department of Conservation begins to implement a Kakapo Recovery Plan.[3]
Computer science
- June 8 – GNU Bash is released.[4]
- 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 in the United States.
Environment
- The global concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere reaches 350 ppm (parts per million) by volume.
Physics
- March 23 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah.
Physiology and medicine
- The Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials begins publishing online.[5]
- The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is first identified.
Technology
- July 17 – The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit "Stealth Bomber" aircraft, developed for the United States Air Force, first flies.[6]
- Isamu Akasaki produces the first Gallium nitride p-n junction blue/UV light-emitting diode.
Awards
Deaths
- February 27 – Konrad Lorenz (born 1903), Austrian zoologist.
- August 12 – William Shockley (born 1910), American physicist.
- August 20 – George Adamson (born 1906), British wildlife conservationist.
- August 29 – Sir Peter Scott (born 1909), English wildlife conservationist.
- October 11 – M. King Hubbert (born 1903), American geophysicist.
- October 28 – Louise Hay (born 1935), French-born American mathematician; breast cancer.
- December 14 – Andrei Sakharov (born 1921), Soviet Russian nuclear physicist and political dissident.
References
- ^ "Horizon Online Ephemeris System for Pluto Barycenter". JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System @ Solar System Dynamics Group. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
- ^ "Identification of the cystic fibrosis gene: chromosome walking and jumping". Science. 8 September 1989. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
- ^ Powlesland, R. G. (1989). Kakapo Recovery Plan 1989–1994. Wellington: Department of Conservation.
- ^ Brian Fox (forwarded by Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (June 8, 1989). "Bash is in beta release!". Newsgroup: gnu.announce. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
- ^ "About the Cochrane Library". The Cochrane Library. Archived from the original on 5 January 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2011.
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