Dr. Wijdicks studied 30 films ( made between 1970 and 2004 ) that portrayed actors in prolonged comas, and he concluded that only two films accurately depicted the state of a coma victim and the agony of waiting for a patient to awaken: Reversal of Fortune ( 1990 ) and The Dreamlife of Angels ( 1998 ).

He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes including the Tswett Medal ( 1975 ), an American Chemical Society chromatography award ( 1980 ), the World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier Prize ( 1988 ), the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for the Environment ( 1990 ) and the Royal Geographical Society Discovery Lifetime award ( 2001 ).

November 1990, ECOWAS agreed with some principal Liberian players but without Charles Taylor, on an Interim Government of National Unity ( IGNU ) under President Dr. Amos Sawyer.

An Interim Government of National Unity ( IGNU ) was formed in Gambia under the auspices of ECOWAS in October 1990 and Dr. Amos Sawyer became President.

* Dr. Feelgood World Tour ' 89 –' 90 ( 1989 – 1990 )

* 1990 – Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.

Curry first became well known with his breakthrough role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, reprising the role he played in the 1973 London and 1974 Los Angeles stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show, then later for his supporting roles as Rooster in the film adaption of Annie ( 1982 ), Lord of Darkness in the film Legend ( 1985 ), Wadsworth in the film Clue ( 1985 ) as well as a starring role as Pennywise the Clown in the horror TV miniseries It ( 1990 ), which is one of Curry's most acclaimed performances aside from Rocky Horror.

* Dr. David Acer, Florida dentist, infects 6 patients with HIV, unclear if this was a deliberate act: 1987 – 1990

The original version's multiplayer portion was ported to two Nintendo arcade systems in 1990: the Nintendo Vs. System ( under the title Vs. Dr. Mario ) and the PlayChoice-10.

* Muller, Dr. Kal Spice Islands: The Moluccas, Periplus Edirions, 1990, paperback, 168 pages, ISBN 0-945971-07-9

Nobel laureate Dr. Vernon Smith has illustrated the closed-end country fund phenomenon with a chart showing prices and net asset values of the Spain Fund in 1989 and 1990 in his work on price bubbles.

An electronic search of newspaper articles by Dr. Raghavan found that pit bull terriers were responsible for 1 of 28 ( 3. 6 %) dog bite-related fatalities reported in Canada from 1990 through 2007.

* Flint, Peter B., " Obituary: Dr. Robert Hofstadter Dies at 75 ; Won Nobel Prize in Physics in ' 61 ", The New York Times, November 19, 1990.

Prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, allegedly, through Pakistan's former top scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, supplied key data, stored in CDs, on uranium enrichment and information to North Korea in exchange for missile technology around 1990 – 1996, according to U. S. intelligence officials.

* Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor: The Miracle Faith Telethon, Terry Scott Taylor ( 1990 )-Drums

* The Reverend the Honorable Dr Olin C Robison, thirteenth President, Middlebury College, Vermont ); President Emeritus ( 1990 ); Chairman, US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy ); President, Salzburg Seminar ); broadcaster

Additionally, he worked to promote Minnesota on the international stage by traveling to 17 countries in 1984, and bringing the foreign leaders Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union and Dr. Franjo Tuđman of Croatia to the state in 1990.

* Jim Henson ( 1936 – 1990 )-Kermit the Frog, Rowlf the Dog, Dr. Teeth, Link Hogthrob, Guy Smiley, Waldorf, Ernie, and several others.

In his Encyclopedic Dictionary of Yoga ( 1990 ), Dr. Feuerstein writes that the importation of yoga to the West has raised questions as to the appropriateness of spiritual discipleship and the legitimacy of spiritual authority.

Dr. Joseph Murray of Harvard Medical School and chief plastic surgeon at Children's Hospital Boston from 1972-1985 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for his work on immunosuppression.

Eight actors have played more than one character in the series: Nicholas Farrell appeared as Donald Fraser in The ABC Murders ( 1992 ) and then as Major Knighton in The Mystery of the Blue Train ( 2005 ), Simon Shepherd appeared as David Hall in " Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan " ( 1993 ) and then as Dr Rendell in Mrs McGinty's Dead ( 2008 ) and Carol MacReady appeared as Mildred Croft in Peril at End House ( 1990 ) and then as Miss Johnson in Cat Among the Pigeons ( 2008 ).

* Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rensch ( 1900 – 1990 ), Biologist

Dr. An Wang (; February 7, 1920 – March 24, 1990 ) was a Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories, which was known primarily for its dedicated word processing machines.

The 1990 film Edward Scissorhands used the aesthetics of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in creating the look for the main character of Edward Scissorhands.

* Budd, Mike ( editor ) ( 1990 ) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Texts, Contexts, Histories Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, ISBN 0-8135-1570-X

* Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, U. S. law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability

A political history of the civil war in Angola, 1964 – 1990.

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990.

Unger ( 1990 ) advocates a family consisting of Tungusic, Korean, and Japonic but not Turkic or Mongolic, and Doerfer ( 1988 ) rejects all the genetic claims over these major groups.

* J. Marshall Unger ( 1990 ).

In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

The term abugida was suggested by Peter T. Daniels in his 1990 typology of writing systems.

Its triple point temperature of 83. 8058 K is a defining fixed point in the International Temperature Scale of 1990.

( 1990 ) Mountain Environments: An Examination of the Physical Geography of Mountains.

* 1903 – Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer ( d. 1990 )

* 1915 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, set designer and theater director ( d. 1990 )

* 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian singer and actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Jim Gary's " Twentieth Century Dinosaurs " exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C.

* 1908 – Eve Arden, American actress ( d. 1990 )

* 1990 – Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

* 1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, American model and murder victim ( d. 1996 )

He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993.

* 1901 – Charles Farrell, American actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1914 – Joe Mercer, English footballer ( d. 1990 )

* In 1990 12 soldiers were sent to Trinidad after a failed coup attempt by radical Black Muslims against the constitutionally elected government headed by Prime Minister A. N. R.