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1990
Hubble Space Telescope
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
1990 — Preliminary results from NASA's COBE mission confirm the cosmic microwave background radiation is an isotropic blackbody to an astonishing one part in 105 precision, thus eliminating the possibility of an integrated starlight model proposed for the background by steady state enthusiasts.
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21 January 1990 discovery of 5330 Senrikyu
27 January 1990 discovery of 5331 Erimomisaki
30 January 1990 discovery of 5354 Hisayon
21 May 1990 discovery of 6041 Juterkilian
19 July 1990 discovery of 6010 Lyzenga
29 August 1990 discovery of 6011 Tozzi
23 September 1990 discovery of 8088 Australia
10 October 1990 discovery of 6068 Brandenburg and 30826 Coulomb
12 October 1990 discovery of 30828 Bethe and 43790 Ferdinandbraun
13 October 1990 discovery of 8089 Yukar
14 October 1990 discovery of 30830 Jahn
18 October 1990 discovery of 5333 Kanaya
23 November 1990 discovery of 6042 Cheshirecat
1990 discovery of Pan
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6 January 1990 Death of Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
1990 Death of Michael Victor Penston
1990 Death of James Stanley Hey
Nobel Prize
Physics to Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics"
Chemistry to Elias James Corey thumb picture Elias James Corey "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis"
Physiology or Medicine to Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas "for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease"
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