1992 in science

none 1992 science 1992 The year 1992 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below. Anthropology June – British anthropologist Robin Dunbar proposes Dunbar's number (approximately 150) as a cognitive limit to the number of people with whom an interpersonal relationship can be maintained in human communities.Dunbar R. I. M. Neocortex size as a constraint on group size in primates Journal of Human Evolution 22 6 469–493 10.1016/0047-2484(92)90081-J June 1992 free 1992JHumE..22..469D Astronomy January 5 – Asteroid 5751 Zao is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa. January 9 – First confirmed detection of exoplanets with announcement of the discovery of several terrestrial-mass planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12 by radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail working in the United States.Wolszczan A. 1992Natur.355..145W Frail D. A. 10.1038/355145a0 A planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257+12 Nature 355 6356 145–7 1992 4260368 August 30 – Discovery of 15760 Albion, the first trans-Neptunian object to be found after Pluto and Charon. October 31 – Pope John Paul II issues an apology and lifts the 1633 edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei. Biology May 21 – Saola first identified in the Vũ Quang rainforest reserve of northern Vietnam. This member of the bovini tribe is the first large mammal new to science anywhere in the world for more than fifty years and it will take another two decades before live specimens are recorded.10.1038/363443a0 A new species of living bovid from Vietnam 1993 Dung Vu Van Giao Pham Mong Chinh Nguyen Ngoc Tuoc Do Arctander Peter MacKinnon John Nature 363 6428 443 1993Natur.363..443V 4243603 British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins delivers the 1992 Voltaire Lecture, "Viruses of the Mind", describing religion and the belief in god as a parasitic memetic virus that infects human minds.Dawkins, Richard (1992). Viruses of the Mind. 1992 Voltaire Lecture. London: British Humanist Association. Republished in 1993 in the book, Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind. Computer science March 9 – ViolaWWW, the first popular Web browser, created by Pei-Yuan Wei in the United States, is publicly released for Unix. September – The SOCKS Internet protocol is made public.David Koblas SOCKS Proceedings of the Third USENIX UNIX Security Symposium Baltimore, MD USENIX Association September 1992 Earth sciences September 2 – The 1992 Nicaragua earthquake registering 7.7 w y becomes the first tsunami earthquake to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks. Mathematics International Society for Bayesian Analysis founded by Arnold Zellner.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 129 Medicine October – First Cochrane Centre opens (in the UK) and the first Cochrane Review Groups (Pregnancy & Childbirth and Subfertility) are registered. October 29 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States. Brugada syndrome first recognised.Brugada P. Brugada J. Right bundle branch block, persistent ST segment elevation and sudden cardiac death: a distinct clinical and electrocardiographic syndrome. A multicenter report Journal of the American College of Cardiology 20 6 1391–6 November 1992 1309182 10.1016/0735-1097(92)90253-J free Physics Hungary becomes a member of CERN. Technology November 23 – The IBM Simon, a touchscreen mobile phone and personal digital assistant considered the first smartphone, is introduced. December 3 – The first text message is sent. The message reads "Merry Christmas".http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-12-03/after-25-years-of-sms-were-still-anxious-about-text-speak/9205734 It's been 25 years since the first-ever text message and the kids are alright ABC News 2017-12-02 Awards Nobel Prizes Physics: Georges Charpak Chemistry: Rudolph A. Marcus Medicine: Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs Turing Award: Butler Lampson Wollaston Medal for Geology: Martin Harold Phillips Bott Births July 23 – Diwakar Vaish, Indian roboticist Deaths January 1 – Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (b. 1906), American pioneer computer scientist. April 6 – Isaac Asimov (b. 1920), American science author. April 10 – Peter D. Mitchell (b. 1920), English Nobel laureate in chemistry. June 13 – Remziye Hisar, (b. 1902), Turkish chemist. July 24 – Gavriil Ilizarov (b. 1921), Soviet orthopedic surgeon. August 26 – Daniel Gorenstein (b. 1923), American mathematician. November 5 – Jan Oort (b. 1900), Dutch astronomer. References 1990s Science Category:20th century in science Category:1990s in science