The year 1993 in science and technology consisted of many events, including those below. // What is science? There are various understandings of the word science. According to empiricism, scientific theories are objective, empirically testable, and predictive — they predict empirical results that can be checked and possibly contradicted. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

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.

December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Crew Commander: Richard O. Covey (4) Pilot: Kenneth D. Bowersox (2) Payload Commander: F. Story Musgrave (5) Mission Specialist 1: Kathryn C. Thornton (3) Mission Specialist 2: Claude Nicollier (2) - ESA Switzerland Mission Specialist 3: Jeffrey A. Hoffman (4) Mission Specialist 5: Thomas D. Akers (3) Mission Parameters Mass: Orbiter... The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, 1981 (NASA). ... The Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope in orbit around the Earth. ...

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.

March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years). ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) (HKSE: 4335) (founded 1968) is a U.S.-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... Pentium logo, with MMX enhancement The Pentium is a fifth-generation x86 architecture microprocessor by Intel which first shipped on March 22, 1993. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining, as the final day of March. ... A KMail folder full of spam emails collected over a few days. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... Mosaic is a web browser (client) for the World Wide Web written at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). ...

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

Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Hannes Alfvén, 1970 winner for work on astrophysical plasmas List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ... Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. ... Dr. Kary Banks Mullis, PhD Nobel Laureate was born December 28, 1944. ... Michael Smith, C.C., O.B.C., Ph. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... Richard J. Roberts (b. ... The A.M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. ... Juris Hartmanis (born July 7, 1928 in Riga, Latvia) is a prominent computer scientist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory. Born in Latvia, he moved to Germany after... Richard Edwin Stearns is a prominent computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory. Stearns is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University at Albany, which... The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London. ... Doctor Samuel Epstein is a medical doctor and professor emeritus of environmental medicine at the University of Illinois who is perhaps best known for his contributions to environmental medicine, and his contributions towards cancer prevention. ...

Births

Erika Marie Payne Was Born April 23. She owns a pet fart noodle named Patrick Owen Breeding

Grayson McClellan was born also on August 28

Deaths

Rae Ann Johnson died in augst 2002, she was pandora's grandmother. shehad 2 kids and she was 78!!!!