1999 in science

The year 1999 in science and technology involved some significant events.

List of years in science (table)

Aeronautics

  • February 27 – While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in their balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
  • March 320 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones successfully complete a non-stop circumnavigation of the world in a hot air balloon.

Astronomy and space exploration

Total solar eclipse of August 11, viewed from France

Biology

Chemistry

  • Elements 118 and 116 are claimed to be made for the first time. Later retracted when results could not be replicated.

Computer science

  • March 26 – The Melissa worm attacks the Internet.
  • June – RFC 2616 defines HTTP/1.1, the version of Hypertext Transfer Protocol in common use.
  • September 21 – David Bowie's Hours becomes the first complete music album by a major artist available to download over the Internet in advance of the physical release.[1]
  • First working 3-qubit NMR computer demonstrated at IBM's Almaden Research Center. First execution of Grover's algorithm.
  • Probable date – First emojis introduced, in Japan.

Geology

  • January 25 – A 6.0 Richter scale hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,000.
  • August 17 – The 7.6 Mw İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.

History of science and technology

  • Boris Chertok publishes «Ракеты и люди» (Rockets and people), a history of the Soviet rocket program.

Mathematics

Paleontology

Physics

Physiology and medicine

Telecommunications

  • The first BlackBerry is released, using the same hardware as the Inter@ctive pager 950, and running on the Mobitex network.

Awards

Deaths

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gollark: This law is wrong. Not ALL things can be utterly (de)serialised accurately to all formats.
gollark: if it isn't, it might close if you just close the terminal.
gollark: Oh, it must be one of those inescapable daemonizing things like nginx in self-replication mode.
gollark: Oh, it also says it's done 25.4TB of reads and 17.4TB of writes.

References

  1. Cummings, Sue (1999-09-22). "The Flux in Pop Music Has a Distinctly Download Beat to It". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
  2. Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
  3. Amir, Ruthie E.; Van den Veyver, Ignatia; Wan, Mimi; Tran, Charles; Francke, Uta; Zoghbi, Huda Y. (1999). "Rett syndrome is caused by mutations in X-linked MECP2, encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2". Nature Genetics. 23 (2): 185–8. doi:10.1038/13810. PMID 10508514.
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