2000 In Science

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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