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1989
The "Great Wall", John Huchra and Margaret Geller
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4 January 1989 discovery of 4179 Toutatis and 5374 Hokutosei
11 January 1989 discovery of 5375 Siedentopf
2 February 1989 discovery of 30798 Graubünden
6 February 1989 discovery of 8084 Dallas
3 April 1989 discovery of 5350 Epetersen and 6006 Anaximandros
6 April 1989 discovery of 7054 Brehm
1 September 1989 discovery of 8086 Peterthomas
3 September 1989 discovery of 6039 Parmenides
26 September 1989 discovery of 5351 Diderot and 7056 Kierkegaard
2 October 1989 discovery of 11868 Kleinrichert
29 November 1989 discovery of 8087 Kazutaka
27 December 1989 discovery of 5352 Fujita
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26 October 1989 Death of Charles John Pedersen
1 December 1989 Death of Serge Alexander Korff in New York, USA
1989 Death of Sir Harold Jeffreys
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Nobel Prize
Physics to Norman F. Ramsey "for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks" and to Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul "for the development of the ion trap technique"
Chemistry to Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
Physiology or Medicine: to J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"
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