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27 August 1998 burst of X rays from SGR 1900+14 magnetar According to results of experiments of Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt the universe's expansion is speeding up Super Kamiokande , neutrino oscillations The first genome sequence for a multicellular eukaryote, Caenorhabditis elegans, is released ------- 20 February 1998 discovery of 31240 Katrianne 27 April 1998 discovery of 31324 Jirımrazek 4 August 1998 discovery of 44216 Olivercabasa --- 7 January 1998 Death of Vladimir Prelog 9 January 1998 Death of Kenichi Fukui 26 August 1998 Death of Frederick Reines 1998 Death of Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin 1998 Death of Edward L. Ginzton Nobel Prize Physics to Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" Chemistry: to Walter Kohn "for his development of the density-functional theory" and to John Anthony Pople "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry" Physiology or Medicine to Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system"
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