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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 Orbit al spaceflight (this was the first and last space flight for the shuttle).

COMPUTER SCIENCE

November 2 - The Morris Worm is unleashed on the Internet

November 17 - The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the Internet .

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Leon M. Lederman , Melvin Schwartz , Jack Steinberger

--- Chemistry - Johann Deisenhofer , Robert Huber , Hartmut Michel

--- Medicine - Sir James W. Black , Gertrude B. Elion , George H. Hitchings

Turing Award - Ivan Sutherland

BIRTHS

Jim Goodland

DEATHS

January 11 - I.I. Rabi (b. 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 Atom s and Molecule s.

February 15 - Richard Feynman (b. 1918 ), American Physicist , winner of Nobel Prize In Physics in 1965 for his work on Quantum Electrodynamics .

May 8 - Robert A. Heinlein (b. 1907 ), "hard" Science Fiction author

May 25 - Ernst Ruska (b. 1906 ), Nobel Prize Physicist