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ASTRONOMY
August - the
Asteroid
4769 Castalia
is the first asteroid directly imaged, by
Radar
from
Arecibo
COMPUTER SCIENCE
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
PHYSICS
March 23
-
Stanley Pons
and
Martin Fleischmann
announce
Cold Fusion
at the
University Of Utah
AWARDS
Nobel Prize
s
---
Physics
-
Norman F. Ramsey
,
Hans G. Dehmelt
,
Wolfgang Paul
---
Chemistry
-
Sidney Altman
,
Thomas R. Cech
---
Medicine
-
J. Michael Bishop
,
Harold E. Varmus
Turing Award
-
William (Velvel) Kahan
BIRTHS
DEATHS
February 27
-
Konrad Lorenz
(b.
1903
),
Zoologist
.
August 12
-
William Bradford Shockley
(b.
1910
),
Physicist
.
October 11
-
M. King Hubbert
(b.
1903
),
Geophysicist
.
December 14
-
Andrei Sakharov
(b.
1921
),
Nuclear
Physicist
.
