1990 in science

The year 1990 in science and technology

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. [1]
• November 13 – The first known web page is written. [2]

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • 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.