2000 in science

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

Contents

1 Astronomy and space exploration 2 Biology 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

Astronomy and space exploration

• April 7 - Mars Odyssey is launched.

Biology

• December 14, the full genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is published in Nature.

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 winnersv:Vetenskapsåret 2000

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