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ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

April 24 - The Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' places the Hubble Space Telescope into Orbit .

COMPUTER SCIENCE

November 12 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web . {Link without Title}

November 13 - The first known Web page is written. {Link without Title}

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Jerome I. Friedman , Henry W. Kendall , Richard Taylor

--- Chemistry - Elias James Corey

--- Medicine - Joseph E. Murray , E. Donnall Thomas

Turing Award - Fernando J. Corbató

BIRTHS

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.