Overview of the events of 1993 in science
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The year 1993 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
Computer science
- March 22 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips
- March 31 – A bug in a program written by Richard Depew sends an article to 200 newsgroups simultaneously. The term spamming is coined by Joel Furr to describe the incident.
- April – Release of the Sibelius music notation program, developed by British twins Ben and Jonathan Finn.
- April 22 – Release of version 1.0 of the Mosaic Web browser, devised by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina in the United States.
- June 9 – Release of Jurassic Park making pioneering use of computer-generated imagery to produce moving images of prehistoric creatures.
- June 15 – Adobe publishes the first version of the PDF format together with version 1.0 of its PDF product line Adobe Acrobat
Mathematics
Paleontology
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Awards
Deaths
- January 9 – Dame Janet Vaughan, English physiologist (b. 1899)
- February 11 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1922)
- February 21 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist (b. 1888)
- March 4 – Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch 'father of analytical chemistry' (b. 1894)
- April 1 – Solly Zuckerman, British government scientific advisor (b. 1904)
- July 2 – Elizabeth M. Ramsey, American research physician (b. 1906)
- August 16 – Kitty Joyner, American electrical engineer (b. 1916)
- August 25 – Mildred Creak, English child psychologist (b. 1898)
- September 24 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian-born Soviet nuclear physicist (b. 1913)
- October 1 – Vera Peters, Canadian oncologist (b. 1911)
- October 17 – Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist (b. 1897)
- November 1 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
Organisations
References
- 1990s portal
- Science portal
- ^ Chapman, Clark R. (October 1996). "S-Type Asteroids, Ordinary Chondrites, and Space Weathering: The Evidence from Galileo's Fly-bys of Gaspra and Ida". Meteoritics. 31 (6): 699–725. Bibcode:1996M&PS...31..699C. doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.1996.tb02107.x.
- ^ Gordon, N. J.; Salmond, D. J.; Smith, A. F. M. (1993). "Novel approach to nonlinear/non-Gaussian Bayesian state estimation". IEE Proceedings F - Radar and Signal Processing. 140 (2). Institution of Electrical Engineers: 107. doi:10.1049/ip-f-2.1993.0015. ISSN 0956-375X.
- ^ Bonaparte J. F.; Coria R. A. (1993). "Un nuevo y gigantesco sauropodo titanosaurio de la Formacion Rio Limay (Albiano-Cenomaniano) de la Provincia de Neuquen, Argentina". Ameghiniana. 30 (3): 271–82.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Hamer, D.; Hu, S.; Magnuson, V.; Hu, N.; Pattatucci, A. (1993). "A linkage between DNA markers on the X chromosome and male sexual orientation". Science. 261 (5119): 321–7. Bibcode:1993Sci...261..321H. doi:10.1126/science.8332896. PMID 8332896.
- ^ Mojica, F. J.; Juez, G.; Rodríguez-Valera, F (1993). "Transcription at different salinities of Haloferax mediterranei sequences adjacent to partially modified PstI sites". Molecular Microbiology. 9 (3): 613–621. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb01721.x. PMID 8412707. S2CID 23548049. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
- ^ "History of Prosthetics". Blatchford & Sons, Ltd. Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-03-16.