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The year 1990 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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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]
Mathematics
- Ruth Lawrence publishes a paper on homological representations of the Hecke algebra, introducing, among other things, certain novel linear representations of the braid group, the Lawrence–Krammer representation.[3]
Paleontology
- August 12 – "Sue", the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found, is discovered in South Dakota.
Awards
- Fields Prize in Mathematics: Vladimir Drinfeld, Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones, Shigefumi Mori and Edward Witten
- Nobel Prizes
- Turing Award – Fernando J. Corbató
Deaths
- January 4 – Prof. Doc Edgerton, (b. 1903), electrical engineer.
- January 26 – Lewis Mumford (b. 1895), historian and philosopher of science.
- March 22 – Gerald Bull (b. 1928), engineer.
- March 24 – An Wang (b. 1920), computer designer.
- October 17 - Hans Freudenthal (b. 1905), mathematician.
References
- ^ Berners-Lee, T.; Cailliau, R. (12 November 1990). "WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project". http://www.w3.org/Proposal. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ "Links and Anchors". http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Link.html. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^ Lawrence, R. J. (1990). "Homological representations of the Hecke algebra" (PDF). Communications in Mathematical Physics 135: 141–191. http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.cmp/1104201923. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
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