The year 1994 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below. The following entries cover events related to Science or Technology which occurred in the listed year The table of years in science is a tabular display of all years in Science, for overview and quick navigation to any year The year 1984 in Science and Technology involved some significant events The year 1985 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below The year 1986 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below The year 1987 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below The year 1988 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below The year 1989 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below The year 1990 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below The year 1991 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below The year 1992 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below The year 1993 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below The year 1995 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below The year 1996 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below The year 1997 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below The year 1998 in Science and Technology involved many events some of which are included below The year 1999 in Science and Technology involved some significant events The year 2000 in Science and Technology involved some significant events The year 2001 in Science and Technology involved many events some of which are included below The year 2002 in Science and Technology involved some significant events The year 2003 in Science and Technology involved some significant events The year 2004 in Science and Technology involved some significant events This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 The 2010s Decade is a period of 10 years that will begin on January 1, 2010 and will end on December 31, 2019. The 2020s is the 3rd decade of the 21st century of the Anno Domini ( common) era See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them The pages listed below contain information about trends and events in particular centuries and millennia. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The 21st century is the current century of the Christian Era or Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The pages listed below contain information about trends and events in particular centuries and millennia. Events 12 February – Edvard Munch 's painting " The Scream " is stolen in Oslo (and is recovered on 7 May The year 1994 in Archaeology involved some significant events The year 1994 in architecture involved some significant events The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994. Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning " Knowledge " or "knowing" is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding Technology is a broad concept that deals with a Species ' usage and knowledge of Tools and Crafts and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt
Astronomy and space exploration
- July 16-July 22 - The fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter
- July 21 R. Events 622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar. 1054 - Three Roman legates fractured relations between the Western and Events 1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Shoemaker-Levy redirects here For other Shoemaker-Levy comets see List of periodic comets. Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Ibata, M. Irwin, and G. Gilmore discover the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy ( SagDEG) is an elliptically looped shaped Satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Γαλαξίας (Galaxias sometimes referred to simply It was considered the closest galaxy to the Milky Way from its discovery until 2003. [1]
- October 12 - NASA lost contact with the Magellan spacecraft after a successful mission. Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The Magellan spacecraft was a space probe sent to the planet Venus, the first post- Voyager unmanned spacecraft to be launched by NASA The probe crashed into Venus shortly after. The VENUS ( V ictoria E xperimental N etwork U nder the S ea project is a cabled sea floor observatory operated by the University
- Asteroid 7484 Dogo Onsesn is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa. 7484 Dogo Onsen (1994 WF4 is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on November 30, 1994 by Nakamura A Masahiro Koishikawa is a Japanese astronomer born in 1952 He has studied both major and minor planets and has discovered asteroids and comets
- 14032 Mego is discovered.
Archaeology
- March 31 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution). Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Nature is a prominent Scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869 NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct Hominid which lived between 3 Human evolution, or anthropogenesis, is the part of biological Evolution concerning the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct Species
Molecular biology
- Green fluorescent protein was successfully expressed in [[C. The green fluorescent protein ( GFP) is composed of 238 Amino acids (26 elegans]], starting its career as a fluorescent marker.
Technology
- May 6 - The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers over seven years to complete, opens between England and France. Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. The Channel Tunnel (Le tunnel sous la Manche also known as the Chunnel, is a undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent in England with England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Travelers can now travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 25 - Stephen Cole Kleene (b. The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two three or four Mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov (Ефим Исаакович Зельманов born 7 September 1955) is a Mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial Pierre-Louis Lions (born August 11 1956) is a French mathematician Jean Bourgain (b February 28, 1954, Ostend) is a Belgian Mathematician, noted as a prolific problem-solver Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (born May 29, 1957) is a French Mathematician. The Nobel Prize (Nobelpriset (Nobelprisen is a Swedish prize established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Peace, Literature The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Bertram Neville Brockhouse, CC, FRSC ( July 15, 1918 &ndash October 13, 2003) was a Canadian Physicist Clifford Glenwood Shull ( Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, September 23, 1915 &ndash March 31, 2001) was a Nobel Prize -winning The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of Chemistry. George Andrew Olah (born May 22, 1927 in Budapest, as Oláh György) is a Hungarian -born American Chemist. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institute. Alfred Goodman Gilman (born July 1, 1941) is an American pharmacologist and biochemist. Martin Rodbell ( December 1, 1925 &ndash December 7, 1998) was an American Biochemist and Molecular Endocrinologist The A M Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20 1936; Weehawken, US Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born June 13, 1937 in Katur Andhra Pradesh, India) is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence William Jason Morgan (born October 10, 1935 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American Geophysicist who has made seminal contributions Events 41 - After a night of negotiation Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate Stephen Cole Kleene ( January 5, 1909, Hartford Connecticut, USA &ndash January 25, 1994, Madison Wisconsin 1909), mathematician. The year 1909 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics.
- July 29 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (b. Events 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot OM, FRS ( 12 May 1910 &ndash 29 July 1994) was a British 1910), chemist. The year 1910 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below A chemist is a Scientist trained in the Science of Chemistry.
- August 19 - Linus Pauling (b. Events 43 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul. Linus Carl Pauling (February 28 1901 – August 19 1994 was an American Scientist, Peace activist, Author and educator. 1901), American chemist. The year 1901 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A chemist is a Scientist trained in the Science of Chemistry.
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