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MIT 1990-2004: The Vest Years
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year 1990

Undergraduate student body is 34% women and 14% underrepresented minorities

Hubble Space Telescope launched

 hubble telescope

Fridman and Kendall

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Professors Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall '55 and colleague for the discovery of quarks

Charles M. Vest named 15th president of MIT

Charles Vest

MIT hosts Names Project, the AIDS Memorial Quilt

Cold war ends

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