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<h2 id="astronomy-and-space-exploration">Astronomy and space exploration</h2> <ul><li>January 24 – Japan launches the <a href="/facts/Hiten_(spacecraft)/koCLav2J">Hiten</a> spacecraft, the first lunar probe launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.</li> <li>February 14 – The <i><a href="/facts/Pale_Blue_Dot/uVp0qBgq">Pale Blue Dot</a></i> photograph of <a href="/facts/Earth/HLLmDfj0">Earth</a> is sent back from the <i><a href="/facts/Voyager_1/39jCxR9I">Voyager 1</a></i> probe after completing its primary mission, from around 3.5 billion miles away.</li> <li>April 24 – The <a href="/facts/Space_Shuttle_Discovery/MmSTr4G0">Space Shuttle <i>Discovery</i></a> places the <a href="/facts/Hubble_Space_Telescope/NQeIf0vw">Hubble Space Telescope</a> into orbit.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li>August 16 – <a href="/facts/Steven_Balbus/oPL9VLa8">Steven Balbus</a> makes his first discovery leading to elucidation of <a href="/facts/Magnetorotational_instability/eLqKRLS7">magnetorotational instability</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li>October 13 – <a href="/facts/Earth-grazing_meteoroid_of_13_October_1990/WGyGjlD3">Earth-grazing meteoroid of 13 October 1990</a>: A 44 kilogram, 41.5 km/s meteoroid passes above Czechoslovakia and Poland at 97.9 km. It is the first time calculations of the orbit of such a body based on photographic records from two distant places is made.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="biology">Biology</h2> <ul><li>The term "<a href="/facts/Rewilding_(conservation_biology)/DEl1RMe9">rewilding</a>" is first used in print.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="computer-science">Computer science</h2> <ul><li>February – <a href="/facts/Adobe_Photoshop/f6bbmNx0">Adobe Photoshop</a> 1.0 <a href="/facts/Graphics_software/81h9n4M2">graphics software</a>, devised by <a href="/facts/Thomas_Knoll/Bna8V9Ey">Thomas Knoll</a>, is released.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li>May 22 - <a href="/facts/Windows_3.0/AmCtP94m">Windows 3.0</a> is shipped by <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a></li> <li>November 12 – <a href="/facts/Tim_Berners-Lee/JRv21mt9">Tim Berners-Lee</a> publishes a more formal proposal for the <a href="/facts/World_Wide_Web/wvnTrWFq">World Wide Web</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li>November 13 – The first known <a href="/facts/World_Wide_Web/wvnTrWFq">web</a> page is written.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li>Approx. November 22 – <a href="/facts/Satoshi_Tajiri/KKPNb9mV">Satoshi Tajiri</a> begins creating the first <a href="/facts/Pok%C3%A9mon/g1cjJz0p">Pokémon</a> game.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="history-of-science">History of science</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Thomas_W._Laqueur/0vszorHB">Thomas W. Laqueur</a> publishes <i>Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud</i> (<a href="/facts/Harvard_University_Press/YluAnq74">Harvard University Press</a>).</li></ul> <h2 id="mathematics">Mathematics</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Alan_E._Gelfand/fpfDM3lk">Alan E. Gelfand</a> and <a href="/facts/Adrian_Smith_(statistician)/K0kTAgsI">Adrian Smith</a> publish a paper drawing attention to the significance of the <a href="/facts/Gibbs_sampler/HDYRhxEq">Gibbs sampler</a> technique for Bayesian <a href="/facts/Numerical_integration/MwJnvcDV">numerical integration</a> problems.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Victor_Kolyvagin/7H6wd82H">Victor Kolyvagin</a> introduces <a href="/facts/Euler_system/PSzqCxp5">Euler systems</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Ruth_Lawrence/onYL6Ru9">Ruth Lawrence</a> publishes a paper on <a href="/facts/Homology_(mathematics)/VFJmryEW">homological</a> representations of the <a href="/facts/Iwahori%E2%80%93Hecke_algebra/GQNLrpaL">Hecke algebra</a>, introducing, among other things, certain novel linear representations of the <a href="/facts/Braid_group/rn5323Kx">braid group</a>, the <a href="/facts/Lawrence%E2%80%93Krammer_representation/gc1qUbar">Lawrence–Krammer representation</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="paleontology">Paleontology</h2> <ul><li>August 12 – "<a href="/facts/Sue_(dinosaur)/HsuS8mqh">Sue</a>", the best preserved <i><a href="/facts/Tyrannosaurus/HQw1cywX">Tyrannosaurus rex</a></i> specimen ever found, is discovered in <a href="/facts/South_Dakota/R51Fbf1t">South Dakota</a> by <a href="/facts/Sue_Hendrickson/4dFMYu4u">Sue Hendrickson</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="physiology-and-medicine">Physiology and medicine</h2> <ul><li>June 25 – <i><a href="/facts/Cruzan_v._Director,_Missouri_Department_of_Health/VtCeUsvm">Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health</a></i> decided in the <a href="/facts/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States/rJHothwW">Supreme Court of the United States</a> allowing public officials to intervene in questions of termination of life support in the absence of an <a href="/facts/Advance_healthcare_directive/lG5n3AYB">advance healthcare directive</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Human_Genome_Project/eQDHgHTP">Human Genome Project</a> is founded.</li> <li>The first evidence for the existence of the <a href="/facts/BRCA_gene/xHDwxARA">BRCA gene</a> encoding for a DNA repair enzyme involved in breast cancer susceptibility Is provided by <a href="/facts/Mary-Claire_King/QTUxTyaq">Mary-Claire King</a>'s laboratory at <a href="/facts/University_of_California,_Berkeley/MXVEjklr">University of California, Berkeley</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="psychology">Psychology</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Roger_Shepard/YVLBDxpx">Roger Shepard</a>'s <i>Mind Sights</i> presents the "<a href="/facts/Shepard_tables/YwWNcm2D">Shepard tables</a>" illusion.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Fields_Medal/khFmkEnm">Fields Prize in Mathematics</a>: <a href="/facts/Vladimir_Drinfeld/xGhJ8NAv">Vladimir Drinfeld</a>, <a href="/facts/Vaughan_Frederick_Randal_Jones/VMsx3l70">Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones</a>, <a href="/facts/Shigefumi_Mori/U5MHfXqV">Shigefumi Mori</a> and <a href="/facts/Edward_Witten/lPUylPmj">Edward Witten</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize/3z1Y3oFL">Nobel Prizes</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Physics</a> – <a href="/facts/Jerome_Isaac_Friedman/3Jokd6St">Jerome Isaac Friedman</a>, <a href="/facts/Henry_Way_Kendall/E0j6NDUy">Henry Way Kendall</a> and <a href="/facts/Richard_E._Taylor/49uRlxN0">Richard E. Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry/8Nb8Ajjy">Chemistry</a> – <a href="/facts/Elias_James_Corey/xsj35SIc">Elias James Corey</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine/rlnpJX84">Medicine</a> – <a href="/facts/Joseph_E._Murray/K2IgJtvI">Joseph E. Murray</a> and <a href="/facts/E._Donnall_Thomas/5hnx0azy">E. Donnall Thomas</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/Turing_Award/HbEEp0GF">Turing Award</a> – <a href="/facts/Fernando_J._Corbat%C3%B3/2kXkQk3I">Fernando J. Corbató</a></li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>September 28 – <a href="/facts/Nadim_Kobeissi/vRx9sSGb">Nadim Kobeissi</a>, Lebanese computer science researcher</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>January 4 – Prof. <a href="/facts/Doc_Edgerton/QR9k1zPt">Doc Edgerton</a>, (b. <a href="/facts/1903_in_science/vzmumpjg">1903</a>), <a href="/facts/Americans/srd9GJ5U">American</a> <a href="/facts/Electrical_engineer/YYXW1KLW">electrical engineer</a>.</li> <li>January 14 – <a href="/facts/Rosalind_Pitt-Rivers/ChDrB73m">Rosalind Pitt-Rivers</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1907_in_science/6kN1ef3W">1907</a>), <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> <a href="/facts/Biochemist/gAWNAY5v">biochemist</a>.</li> <li>January 26 – <a href="/facts/Lewis_Mumford/Hr5GNH1A">Lewis Mumford</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1895_in_science/j51E1l1p">1895</a>), American historian and philosopher of science.</li> <li>February 19 – <a href="/facts/Edris_Rice-Wray_Carson/eAQVfEht">Edris Rice-Wray Carson</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1904_in_science/qfWv7vt5">1904</a>), American-born physician, pioneer in <a href="/facts/Family_planning/SwCbJ8Yd">family planning</a>.</li> <li>March 20 – <a href="/facts/Victor_Rothschild,_3rd_Baron_Rothschild/054GTU1U">Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1910_in_science/Auegqwd7">1910</a>), English <a href="/facts/Polymath/eqIfjQRu">polymath</a>.</li> <li>March 22 – <a href="/facts/Gerald_Bull/oQ6ga0Yg">Gerald Bull</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1928_in_science/C3E10xR9">1928</a>), <a href="/facts/Canadians/9y5ceYgk">Canadian</a> engineer.</li> <li>March 24 – <a href="/facts/An_Wang/CAtcP1ju">An Wang</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1920_in_science/FcwHBQPg">1920</a>), <a href="/facts/Chinese_American/mjGFo4om">Chinese American</a> computer designer.</li> <li>May 30 – <a href="/facts/Ora_Mendelsohn_Rosen/Ucd1hguk">Ora Mendelsohn Rosen</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1935_in_science/Bv2tQnCb">1935</a>), American biomedical researcher.</li> <li>August 2 – <a href="/facts/Fran%C3%A7ois_Perrier_(psychoanalyst)/rXvg9BMt">François Perrier</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1922_in_science/VFLMRogY">1922</a>), French psychoanalyst.</li> <li>August 18 – <a href="/facts/B._F._Skinner/cexUumu1">B. F. Skinner</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1904_in_science/qfWv7vt5">1904</a>), American behavioral <a href="/facts/Psychologist/J4l4QdX2">psychologist</a>.</li> <li>August 30 – <a href="/facts/Bernard_D._H._Tellegen/p38Lxvvz">Bernard D. H. Tellegen</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1900_in_science/tY9grWXa">1900</a>), Dutch electrical engineer.</li> <li>September 2 – <a href="/facts/John_Bowlby/nN4T411P">John Bowlby</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1907_in_science/6kN1ef3W">1907</a>), English <a href="/facts/Child_psychologist/Myy826TQ">child psychologist</a> and pioneer of <a href="/facts/Attachment_theory/8jpCPkWH">attachment theory</a>.</li> <li>October 9 – <a href="/facts/Murray_Bowen/FBvwPx4o">Murray Bowen</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1913_in_science/6nl9Anqy">1913</a>), American <a href="/facts/Psychiatrist/hS7EnAU6">psychiatrist</a> and pioneer of <a href="/facts/Family_therapy/ne5xehgd">family therapy</a>.</li> <li>October 17 – <a href="/facts/Hans_Freudenthal/l8V4uA0N">Hans Freudenthal</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1905_in_science/L89WrSLG">1905</a>), <a href="/facts/Dutch_people/QhHtJ2WK">Dutch</a> <a href="/facts/Mathematician/eaFSR8Fx">mathematician</a>.</li> <li>November 19 – <a href="/facts/Georgy_Flyorov/qhcQHs2q">Georgy Flyorov</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1913_in_science/6nl9Anqy">1913</a>), Russian physicist.</li> <li>November 25 – <a href="/facts/Bettina_Warburg/MbgSj6mI">Bettina Warburg</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1900_in_science/tY9grWXa">1900</a>), German-born American psychiatrist.</li></ul> <ul> <li>Science portal</li><li>Technology portal</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"STS-31". 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The illusion was first presented by the US psychologist Roger N(ewland) Shepard (born 1929) in his book Mind Sights: Original Visual Illusions, Ambiguities, and Other Anomalies (1990, p. 48), Shepard commented that 'any knowledge or understanding of the illusion we may gain at the intellectual level remains virtually powerless to diminish the magnitude of the illusion' (p. 128). <a href="9780191726828" target="_blank">9780191726828</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>