Overview of the events of 1989 in science
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The year 1989 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Computer science
Environment
Physics
Physiology and medicine
- The Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials begins publishing online.[6]
- The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is first identified by Michael Houghton and his team.
Technology
Awards
Births
Deaths
- February 27 – Konrad Lorenz (born 1903), Austrian zoologist.
- March 18 – Sir Harold Jeffreys (born 1891), English mathematician.
- April 24 – Horace Hodes (born 1907), American medical researcher.
- August 10 – Isabella Forshall (born 1900), English pediatric surgeon.
- 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.
- ^ Rommens, Johanna M.; Iannuzzi, Michael C.; Kerem, Bat-Sheva; Drumm, Mitchell L.; Melmer, Georg; Dean, Michael; Rozmahel, Richard; Cole, Jeffery L.; Kennedy, Dara; Hidaka, Noriko; Zsiga, Martha; Buchwald, Manuel; Tsui, Lap-Chee; Riordan, John R.; Collins, Francis S. (8 September 1989). "Identification of the cystic fibrosis gene: chromosome walking and jumping". Science. 245 (4922): 1059–1065. doi:10.1126/science.2772657. PMID 2772657. 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.
- ^ Supplee, James M. (1989). "Relativistic buoyancy". American Journal of Physics. 57 (1): 75–77. Bibcode:1989AmJPh..57...75S. doi:10.1119/1.15875. ISSN 0002-9505.
- ^ "About the Cochrane Library". The Cochrane Library. Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved January 25, 2011.
- ^ Lambert, Mark (1990). Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1990–1991. Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Defence Data. ISBN 978-0-7106-0908-3.