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1989 in science
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The year 1989 in science and technology
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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 Prizes
- 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.
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