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The year 1991 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- October 29 - the Galileo probe becomes the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid.
- Asteroid 6859 Datemasamune is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
- 11514 Tsunenaga is discovered.
Chemistry
- Carbon nanotubes discovered by Sumio Iijima
Computer science
- February 26 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces the web browser.
- September 17 - Linus Torvalds introduces the Linux kernel version 0.01.
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 30 - John Bardeen (b. 1908), physicist, co-inventor of the transistor. Only physicist to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
- March 1 - Edwin H. Land (b. 1909), inventor and founder of Polaroid.
Organisations
- CERN: Finland and Poland join CERN.
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