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Overview of the events of 1991 in science
The year 1991 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
Chemistry
Computer science
Conservation
Geophysics
Mathematics
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Technology
- July 1 – World's first GSM telephone call made in Finland.
Publications
- The first open-access scientific online archive, arXiv, is begun as a preprint service for physicists, initiated by Paul Ginsparg.
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 30 – John Bardeen (b. 1908), American physicist, co-inventor of the transistor and twice winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- February 6 – Salvador Luria (b. 1912), Italian-born biologist, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- February 23 – Sir Charles Illingworth (b. 1899), British surgeon.
- March 1 – Edwin H. Land (b. 1909), American inventor of the Land Camera.
- June 2 – Mary Loveless (b. 1899), American immunologist.
- June 5 – Min Chueh Chang (b. 1908), Chinese American embryologist.
- July 4 – Victor Chang (b. 1936), Australian cardiac surgeon, murdered.
- December 2 – Anne Beloff-Chain (b. 1921), British biochemist.
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