1994

Fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter

Elements 110 Darmstadtium and 111 Roentgenium , GSI Germany

First total synthesis of Taxol by Robert A. Holton and his group

14 January 1994 discovery of 7434 Osaka

8 February 1994 discovery of 7434 Osaka 7435 Sagamihara and 7436 Kuroiwa

12 March 1994 discovery of 7437 Torricelli

12 May 1994 discovery of 7438 Misakatouge

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16 July 1994 Death of Julian Seymour Schwinger

18 August 1994 Death of Richard Laurence Millington Synge

13 September 1994, Death of Arthur Adel in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

7 October 1994 Death of Niels K. Jerne

1994 Death of Dorothy Hodgkin

1994 Death of Harold Horace Hopkins

1994 Death of Linus Pauling

1994 Death of Roger Wolcott Sperry

1994 Death of John Swallow

1994 Death of Olin Chaddock Wilson

1994 Death of Ake Anders Edvard Wallenquist

1994 Death of Michael Philip Candy

1994 Death of Odd Dahl

1994 Death of Roy Billinge

Nobel Prize

Physics "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter" to Bertram N. Brockhouse "for the development of neutron spectroscopy" and to Clifford G. Shull "for the development of the neutron diffraction technique"

Chemistry: to George Andrew Olah "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"

Physiology or Medicine to Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells"

Chronology

1993- 1994 - 1995

Index

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