1994 in science
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The year 1994 in science and technology consisted of many events, including those below.
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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.
Archaeology
- March 31 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).
Physics
Technology
- 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.
Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- Turing Award - Edward Feigenbaum, Raj Reddy
- Wollaston Medal for Geology - William Jason Morgan
Births
Deaths
- January 25 - Stephen Cole Kleene (b. 1909), mathematician.
- July 29 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (b. 1910), chemist.
- August 19 - Linus Pauling (b. 1901), American chemist.