1990 in science
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The year 1990 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy and space exploration
- April 24 - The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
[edit] Computer science
- November 12 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web. [1]
- November 13 - The first known web page is written. [2]
[edit] Awards
- Fields Prize in Mathematics: Vladimir Drinfeld, Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones, Shigefumi Mori and Edward Witten
- Nobel Prizes
- Turing Award - Fernando J. Corbató
[edit] 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.
