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1991 in science
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The year 1991 in science and technology had many significant events, including those listed below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- October 29 - the Galileo probe becomes the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid.
Chemistry
- Carbon nanotubes discovered by Sumio Iijima
Computer science
- February 26 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces the web browser.
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 30 - John Bardeen (b. 1908), physicist, co-inventor of the transistor. Only physicist to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
- March 1 - Edwin H. Land (b. 1909), inventor and founder of Polaroid.
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