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2000 in science

 

2000 in science

The year 2000 in science and technology consisted of many events, some of which are included below.

Astronomy and space exploration

  • April 7 - Mars Odyssey is launched.

    Biology

  • The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae's genome is sequenced.

    Awards

  • Nobel Prizes
  • * Physics - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack Kilby
  • * Chemistry - Alan J Heeger, Alan G MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa
  • * Medicine - Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel
  • Turing Award: Andrew Yao
  • Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Sefton Fyfe

    Births

    Deaths

  • May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov (b. 1933), cosmonaut
  • September 20 - Gherman Titov (b. 1935), cosmonaut
  • October 4 - Michael Smith (b. 1932, chemist, 1993 Nobel Prize winner


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