Overview of the events of 1989 in science
The year 1989 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
Physiology and medicine [ edit ] February 27 – Konrad Lorenz (born 1903 ), Austrian zoologist . March 18 – Sir Harold Jeffreys (born 1891 ), English mathematician . April 24 – Horace Hodes (born 1907 ), American medical researcher. August 10 – Isabella Forshall (born 1900 ), English pediatric surgeon . August 12 – William Shockley (born 1910 ), American physicist . August 20 – George Adamson (born 1906 ), British wildlife conservationist . August 29 – Sir Peter Scott (born 1909 ), English wildlife conservationist. October 11 – M. King Hubbert (born 1903 ), American geophysicist . October 28 – Louise Hay (born 1935 ), French-born American mathematician; breast cancer. December 14 – Andrei Sakharov (born 1921 ), Soviet Russian nuclear physicist and political dissident. ^ "Horizon Online Ephemeris System for Pluto Barycenter" . JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System @ Solar System Dynamics Group. Retrieved January 16, 2011 . ^ Rommens, Johanna M.; Iannuzzi, Michael C.; Kerem, Bat-Sheva; Drumm, Mitchell L.; Melmer, Georg; Dean, Michael; Rozmahel, Richard; Cole, Jeffery L.; Kennedy, Dara; Hidaka, Noriko; Zsiga, Martha; Buchwald, Manuel; Tsui, Lap-Chee; Riordan, John R.; Collins, Francis S. (8 September 1989). "Identification of the cystic fibrosis gene: chromosome walking and jumping" . Science . 245 (4922): 1059–1065. Bibcode :1989Sci...245.1059R . doi :10.1126/science.2772657 . PMID 2772657 . Retrieved 30 October 2013 . ^ Powlesland, R. G. (1989). Kakapo Recovery Plan 1989–1994 . Wellington: Department of Conservation. ^ Brian Fox (forwarded by Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (June 8, 1989). "Bash is in beta release!" . Newsgroup : gnu.announce . Retrieved October 28, 2010 . ^ Supplee, James M. (1989). "Relativistic buoyancy". American Journal of Physics . 57 (1): 75–77. Bibcode :1989AmJPh..57...75S . doi :10.1119/1.15875 . ISSN 0002-9505 . ^ "About the Cochrane Library" . The Cochrane Library . Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved January 25, 2011 . ^ Lambert, Mark (1990). Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1990–1991 . Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Defence Data. ISBN 978-0-7106-0908-3 .