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1993 in science

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The year 1993 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

• December 2 - STS-61 is launched - This Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) installed corrective optics, plus upgrades, that not only allowed the telescope to focus properly, but also increased magnification/clarity beyond the original design: HST had been pre-designed for such future upgrades (see: continuous improvement).
• February 13 - Asteroid 7253 Nara was discovered by Fumiaki Uto.

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.

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.

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

Deaths

• February 11 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)

Organisations

• CERN: Czechia and Slovakia join CERN.