1998 in science

The year 1998 in science and technology involved many events, some of which are included below.

List of years in science (table)

Astronomy and space exploration

Computer science

Geology

Mathematics

Physics

  • May 11 & 13 – Nuclear testing: The Pokhran-II: India detonates the five nuclear devices in Pokhran Test Range, an Indian Army base.
  • May 28 – Nuclear testing: The Chagai-I: In response to India, Pakistan conducts five underground and simultaneous nuclear weapon-testing experiments in the Chagai Hills, thus becoming the first nuclear weapon state in the Muslim world and the seventh in the world.
  • May 30 – Nuclear testing: The Chagai-II: As part of a tit-for-tat policy, a final plutonium implosion test is carried out in the Kharan Desert.
  • June 5 Experimental proof is obtained that neutrinos have mass.[4]

Physiology and medicine

Technology

Institutions

Publications

  • Jacques Heyman – Structural Analysis: A Historical Approach (Cambridge University Press)[15]

Awards

Deaths

References

  1. Perlmutter, S.; et al. (January 1, 1998). "Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe". Nature. 391 (6662): 51–4. arXiv:astro-ph/9712212. Bibcode:1998Natur.391...51P. doi:10.1038/34124.
  2. Riess, Adam G.; et al. (September 1998). "Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant". The Astronomical Journal. 116 (3): 1009–38. arXiv:astro-ph/9805201. Bibcode:1998AJ....116.1009R. doi:10.1086/300499.
  3. Palmer, Jason (October 4, 2011). "Nobel physics prize honours accelerating Universe find". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  4. "Ghostly particles rule the universe". BBC News. June 5, 1998.
  5. Wakefield, A. J.; et al. (February 28, 1998). "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children". Lancet. 351 (9103): 637–41. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0. PMID 9500320. (Retracted)
  6. Goldacre, Ben (2009). "The Media's MMR Hoax". Bad Science. London: Harper Perennial. pp. 290–331. ISBN 978-0-00-728487-0.
  7. Homer, Trevor (2006). The Book of Origins. London: Portrait. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-7499-5110-8.
  8. "EMAS: The first bionic arm". National Museums Scotland. Archived from the original on August 15, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  9. "World's first hand transplant". BBC. September 25, 1998. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
  10. Poltorak, Alexander; et al. (December 1998). "Defective LPS signaling in C3H/HeJ and C57BL/10ScCr mice: mutations in Tlr4 gene". Science. 282 (5396): 2085–8. Bibcode:1998Sci...282.2085P. doi:10.1126/science.282.5396.2085. PMID 9851930.
  11. With some small gaps. The C. elegans Sequencing Consortium (1998). "Genome sequence of the nematode C. elegans: A platform for investigating biology". Science. 282 (5396): 2012–2018. Bibcode:1998Sci...282.2012.. doi:10.1126/science.282.5396.2012. PMID 9851916.
  12. "Is human chip implant wave of the future?". CNN. January 13, 1999. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  13. "Baroness Susan Greenfield". Royal Institution. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  14. ISBN 0-521-62249-2.
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