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The year 1994 in Science and Technology consisted of many events, including those below.

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

July 16 - July 22 - The fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter

October 12 - NASA loses contact with the Magellan Spacecraft after a successful mission. The probe crashed into Venus shortly after.

ARCHAEOLOGY

March 31 - The journal '' Nature '' reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete '' Australopithecus Afarensis '' skull (see Human Evolution ).

PHYSICS

April 23 - Physicists at Fermilab observe the Top Quark .

TECHNOLOGY

May 6 - The Channel Tunnel , which took 15,000 workers over seven years to Complete , opens between England and France . Travelers can now travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Bertram N. Brockhouse , Clifford G. Shull

--- Chemistry - George A. Olah

--- Medicine - Alfred G. Gilman , Martin Rodbell

Turing Award - Edward Feigenbaum , Raj Reddy

Wollaston Medal For Geology - William Jason Morgan

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 25 - Stephen Cole Kleene (b. 1909 ), Mathematician .

July 29 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (b. 1910 ), Chemist .

August 19 - Linus Pauling (b. 1901 ), American Chemist .