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30 Nov 1992
asteroid moon |
asteroid moon (astronomy and space ) The first definite asteroid moon is confirmed when the Galileo probe discovers Dactyl orbiting 243 Ida. |
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30 Nov 1992
Prosthesis |
Prosthesis (medicine) The "Intelligent Prosthesis", the first commercially available microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee, is released by UK company Charles A. Blatchford & Sons. |
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30 Nov 1992
Wes Linster |
Wes Linster (paleontology) 14-year-old fossil hunter Wes Linster finds the first Bambiraptor skeleton in Montana. |
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30 Nov 1992
Turing Award |
Turing Award (awards) Turing Award – Juris Hartmanis, Richard E. Stearns |
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30 Nov 1992
Wollaston Medal for Geology |
Wollaston Medal for Geology (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology – Samuel Epstein |
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30 Nov 1992
Czech Republic |
Czech Republic (organisations) Czech Republic and Slovakia join CERN. |
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09 Jan 1993
Janet Vaughan |
death Janet Vaughan Dame Janet Vaughan, English physiologist (b. 1899) |
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01 Feb 1993
discovery that peptic ulcer disease is caused by H. pylori |
discovery that peptic ulcer disease is caused by H. pylori (medicine) The New England Journal of Medicine publishes findings demonstrating that patients with peptic ulcers can be successfully treated with antibiotics, lending strong support to the discovery that peptic ulcer disease is caused by H. pylori. |
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11 Feb 1993
Robert W. Holley |
death Robert W. Holley Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1922) |
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13 Feb 1993
Asteroid |
Asteroid (astronomy and space ) Asteroid 7253 Nara is discovered by Fumiaki Uto. |
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21 Feb 1993
Inge Lehmann |
death Inge Lehmann Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist (b. 1888) |
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04 Mar 1993
Izaak Kolthoff |
death Izaak Kolthoff Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch 'father of analytical chemistry' (b. 1894) |
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22 Mar 1993
Intel |
Intel (computer science) The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips |
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23 Mar 1993
Milwaukee Cryptosporidiosis outbreak |
Milwaukee Cryptosporidiosis outbreak (medicine) Start of Milwaukee Cryptosporidiosis outbreak. |
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31 Mar 1993
Richard Depew |
Richard Depew (computer science) 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. |
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01 Apr 1993
Sibelius |
Sibelius (computer science) Release of the Sibelius music notation program, developed by British twins Ben and Jonathan Finn. |
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22 Apr 1993
Mosaic |
Mosaic (computer science) Release of version 1.0 of the Mosaic Web browser, devised by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina in the United States. |
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30 Apr 1993
Space medicine |
Space medicine In 1993, an astronaut received a test infusion while in orbit on the space shuttle Columbia. German physicist Hans Schlegel had the saline solution at body temperature pumped into him through a needle. The experiment provided a means to address dehydration and other common space problems such as puffy face and skinny legs. |
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15 May 1993
Two-from-one lungs |
Two-from-one lungs In 1993, a woman in Paris was surgically given two new lungs, both of which were cut from the single lung of a large man. Only previously attempted in animal trials, this was the first human to receive such surgery. The procedure is of particular interest for children, for whom finding donor lungs of the correct size is a problem. |
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15 Jun 1993
PDF format |
PDF format (computer science) Adobe publishes the first version of the PDF format together with version 1.0 of its PDF product line Adobe Acrobat |
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21 Jun 1993
Andrew Wiles |
Andrew Wiles (mathematics) Andrew Wiles announces a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem at the Isaac Newton Institute. The proof is slightly flawed, but Wiles announces a revised proof the following year. |
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01 Aug 1993
Cochrane Collaboration |
Cochrane Collaboration (medicine) Formal launch of the Cochrane Collaboration. |
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14 Oct 1993
Gene therapy |
Gene therapy In 1993, Dr. Michael J. Walsh of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced that cystic fibrosis can be corrected by gene therapy. |
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02 Dec 1993
STS-61 |
STS-61 (astronomy and space ) STS-61 is launched. This Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) installs corrective optics, plus upgrades, that not only allow the telescope to focus properly, but also increase magnification/clarity beyond the original design. HST had been pre-designed for such continuous improvement. |
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08 Dec 1993
GPS |
GPS In 1993, the U.S. Secretary of Defense declared that the Global Positioning System, accurate within 100 meters, had 24 GPS satellites operating in their assigned orbits, available for navigation use at Standard Positioning Service (SPS) levels for civil users. This Initial Operational Capability was followed on 27 Apr 1995 with a formal declaration by the U.S. Air Force Space Command that the GPS satellite constellation had met the requirement for Full Operational Capability after successful testing for military functionality. This worldwide, satellite-based radionavigation system used as the DoD's primary radionavigation system provided authorized users encrypted Precise Positioning Service accurate to at least 22 meters. |
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