Science on the year of 1996 in history

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Date	Type	Text
30 Nov 1995 yeast	science	yeast (biology) The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae's genome is sequenced, the first eukaryotic genome to be fully sequenced.
30 Nov 1995 Robin Li	science	Robin Li (computer science) The page ranking web search engine RankDex is originated by Robin Li.
30 Nov 1995 Brewster Kahle	science	Brewster Kahle (computer science) Brewster Kahle, with Bruce Gilliat, develops the Wayback Machine software to crawl and archive World Wide Web pages.
30 Nov 1995 Lov Grover	science	Lov Grover (computer science) Lov Grover, at Bell Labs, publishes the quantum database search algorithm.
30 Nov 1995 IRCnet	science	IRCnet (computer science) IRCnet is founded.
30 Nov 1995 Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease	science	Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (medicine) New variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease first identified in humans, in the United Kingdom.
30 Nov 1995 Sildenafil	science	Sildenafil (medicine) Sildenafil (Viagra), a treatment for erectile dysfunction, is patented by Pfizer.
30 Nov 1995 David Chalmers	science	David Chalmers (philosophy) Australian philosopher David Chalmers publishes The Conscious Mind: in search of a fundamental theory.
30 Nov 1995 Zenith	science	Zenith (technology) Zenith introduces the first HDTV-compatible front projection television in the United States. Broadcasters, TV & PC manufacturers set industry standards for digital HDTV.
30 Nov 1995 APS	science	APS (technology) APS film format is introduced.
30 Nov 1995 magnetic refrigeration	science	magnetic refrigeration (technology) Successful demonstration of magnetic refrigeration.
30 Nov 1995 Ilya Prigogine	science	Ilya Prigogine (publications) Belgian physical chemist Ilya Prigogine publishes La Fin des certitudes (translated as The End of Certainty: time, chaos, and the new laws of nature).
30 Nov 1995 Sokal affair	science	Sokal affair (publications) May - Sokal affair: American mathematical physicist Alan Sokal hoaxes the editors into publishing a deliberately nonsensical paper, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", in a "science wars" issue of the journal Social Text (Duke University Press) as a critique of the intellectual rigor of postmodernism in academic cultural studies.
30 Nov 1995 Turing Award for Computing	science	Turing Award for Computing (awards) Turing Award for Computing: Amir Pnueli
30 Nov 1995 Wollaston Medal for Geology	science	Wollaston Medal for Geology (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology: Nicholas John Shackleton
01 Jan 1996 Google	science	Google (computer science) The Google web search engine originates as "BackRub", a research project using PageRank by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PhD students at Stanford University, California.
07 Jan 1996 blizzard	science	blizzard (meteorology) A large blizzard hits the Eastern United States, killing more than 100.
12 Jan 1996 Bartel Leendert van der Waerden	science	death Bartel Leendert van der Waerden Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (b. 1903), Dutch mathematician.
23 Jan 1996 Java programming language	science	Java programming language (computer science) The first version of the Java programming language is released.
02 Feb 1996 Percy Zell Michener	science	death Percy Zell Michener Died 2 Feb 1996 at age 92 (born 22 Jan 1904). U.S. civil engineer who supervised the construction, completed in 1964, of the 28-km (17 1/2-mi) Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel across the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in eastern Virginia, considered a marvel of modern engineering and one of the most impressive transportation facilities in the world.
02 Feb 1996 Ray McIntire	science	death Ray McIntire Died 2 Feb 1996 at age 77 (born 24 Aug 1918). U.S. chemical engineer who inadvertently created what became known as Styrofoam while working for the Dow Chemical Co., where he was attempting to develop a rubberlike polymer to be used as a flexible insulator.
09 Feb 1996 Copernicium	science	Copernicium (chemistry) Copernicium first created at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov and others.
10 Feb 1996 Deep Blue	science	Deep Blue (computer science) Deep Blue defeats chess grand-master Garry Kasparov for the first time.
20 Feb 1996 Solomon Asch	science	death Solomon Asch Solomon Asch (b. 1907), Polish American social psychologist.
01 Mar 1996 Cochrane Library	science	Cochrane Library (medicine) The Cochrane Library launched.
26 Mar 1996 David Packard	science	death David Packard David Packard (b. 1912), American electrical engineer.
13 May 1996 tornado	science	tornado (meteorology) Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kills 600.
23 May 1996 Göran Kropp	science	Göran Kropp (exploration) Swede Göran Kropp reaches Mount Everest summit alone without oxygen after having bicycled there from Sweden.
06 Jun 1996 George Davis Snell	science	death George Davis Snell George Davis Snell (b. 1903), American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist.
17 Jun 1996 Thomas Kuhn	science	death Thomas Kuhn Thomas Kuhn (b. 1922), American philosopher of science.
05 Jul 1996 Dolly	science	Dolly (biology) Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at The Roslin Institute in Scotland.
18 Jul 1996 Saguenay River	science	Saguenay River (meteorology) Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec, in one of Canada's most costly natural disasters.
01 Aug 1996 Tadeusz Reichstein	science	death Tadeusz Reichstein Tadeusz Reichstein (b. 1897), Polish-Swiss winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
02 Aug 1996 Texas	science	Texas (meteorology) The first blizzard of snow in Texas.
06 Aug 1996 NASA	science	NASA (biology) NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
09 Aug 1996 Frank Whittle	science	death Frank Whittle Sir Frank Whittle (b. 1907), English aeronautical engineer.
12 Aug 1996 Victor Ambartsumian	science	death Victor Ambartsumian Victor Ambartsumian (b. 1908), Soviet Armenian theoretical astrophysicist.
20 Sep 1996 Paul Erdös	science	death Paul Erdös Died 20 Sep 1996 at age 83 (born 26 Mar 1913). Hungarian mathematician, who was one of the century's top math experts and pioneered the fields of number theory and combinatorics. The type of mathematics he worked on were beautiful problems that were simple to understand, but notoriously difficult to solve. At age 20, he discovered a proof for a classic theorem of number theory that states that there is always at least one prime number between any positive integer and its double. In the 1930s, he studied in England and moved to the USA by the late 1930s when his Jewish origins made a return to Hungary impossible. Affected by McCarthyism in the 1950s, he spent much of the next ten years in Israel. Writing his many hundreds of papers made him one of history's most prolific mathematicians.
20 Sep 1996 Paul Erdős	science	death Paul Erdős Paul Erdős (b. 1913), Hungarian-born mathematician.
01 Oct 1996 deep linking	science	deep linking (computer science) The Shetland Times and The Shetland News become involved in a landmark legal case over alleged copyright infringement and deep linking in their websites.
11 Oct 1996 Lars Valerian Ahlfors	science	death Lars Valerian Ahlfors Died 11 Oct 1996 at age 89 (born 18 Apr 1907). Finnish mathematician who was awarded one of the first two Fields Medals in 1936 for his work with Riemann surfaces. He also won the Wolf Prize in 1981.
19 Nov 1996 Confederation Bridge	science	Confederation Bridge In 1996, the last component of the Confederation Bridge was placed, crossing the Northumberland Strait, Canada. The piers are 250 metres apart and offer a ship's clearance of 172 metres in width. The 12.9 km Confederation Bridge joins Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island and Cape Jourimain, New-Brunswick and is the longest bridge over ice covered waters in the world. The bridge construction began in Oct 1993, and was opened on 31 May 1997. It carries two lanes of traffic 24 hours a day, seven days a week and takes approximately 10 minutes to cross at normal travelling speeds. The bridge was built curved so that drivers could see the traffic in front of them, a design chosen to reduce accidents.
19 Nov 1996 Grace Bates	science	death Grace Bates Grace Bates (b. 1914), American mathematician.
21 Nov 1996 Abdus Salam	science	death Abdus Salam Abdus Salam (b. 1926), Punjabi-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
20 Dec 1996 Carl Sagan	science	death Carl Sagan Carl Sagan (b. 1934), American astronomer.

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