1993 in science - Definition and Overview

The year 1993 in science and technology consisted of many events, including those below.

Astronomy and space exploration

• December 2 - STS-61 is launched - This space shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope installed corrective optics that allowed the telescope to focus properly.

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 22 - Release of version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
  • Chemistry - Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
  • Medicine - Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A Sharp
• Turing Award - Juris Hartmanis, Richard Stearns
• Wollaston Medal for Geology - Samuel Epstein

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