1994 in science Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The year 1994 in science and technology consisted of many events, including those below.

Astronomy and space exploration

• July 16-July 22 - The fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter
• October 12 - NASA loses contact with the Magellan spacecraft after a successful mission. The probe crashed into Venus shortly after.

• March 31 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).

• April 23 - Physicists at Fermilab observe the top quark.

• May 6 - The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers over seven years to complete, opens between England and France. Travelers can now travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull
  • Chemistry - George A. Olah
  • Medicine - Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
• Turing Award - Edward Feigenbaum, Raj Reddy
• Wollaston Medal for Geology - William Jason Morgan

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