Overview of the events of 2000 in science
The year 2000 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy and space exploration
Conjunction of planets, Moon, and Sun on May 4, 2000
Biology
Computer science
Earth sciences
Mathematics
Medicine
Paleontology
Philosophy
Institutions
Awards
Deaths
January 12 – Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau (b. 1910 ), American chemical engineer
January 19 – G. Ledyard Stebbins (b. 1906 ), American botanist and geneticist
March 7 – W. D. Hamilton (b. 1936 ), English evolutionary biologist , widely recognised as one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century
March 10 – Nim Chimpsky (b. 1973 ), chimpanzee
May 6 – John Clive Ward (b. 1924 ), English-born physicist
May 19 – Yevgeny Khrunov (b. 1933 ), cosmonaut
June 14 – Elsie Widdowson (b. 1908 ), English nutritionist
July 8 – W. David Kingery (b. 1926 ), American materials scientist specializing in ceramic materials
July 14 – Sir Mark Oliphant (b. 1901 ), Australian nuclear physicist
July 29 – René Favaloro (b. 1923 ), Argentine cardiac surgeon
September 20 – Gherman Titov (b. 1935 ), cosmonaut
October 4 – Michael Smith (b. 1932 ), English-born Canadian chemist, 1993 Nobel Prize winner
November 20 – Nikolay Dollezhal (b. 1899 ), a key figure in Soviet atomic bomb project and chief designer of nuclear reactors
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^ "Census of Marine Life" . Retrieved October 10, 2011 .
^ Center for Y2K and Society Records , Charles Babbage Institute , University of Minnesota.
^ "I2Go eGo" . Archived from the original on February 24, 2020. Retrieved December 26, 2020 .
^ Credeur, Mary Jane (September 10, 2001). "2Go is gone after burning through $7 million" . Atlanta Business Chronicle .
^ Reingold, O.; Vadhan, S.; Wigderson, A. (2000), "Entropy waves, the zig-zag graph product, and new constant-degree expanders and extractors", Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) , pp. 3–13, arXiv :math/0406038 , doi :10.1109/SFCS.2000.892006 , ISBN 0-7695-0850-2 , S2CID 420651 .
^ Hanahan Douglas; Weinberg Robert A. (January 2000). "The Hallmarks of Cancer" . Cell . 100 (1): 57–70. doi :10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81683-9 . PMID 10647931 .
^ "Harold Shipman: Timeline" . BBC News . July 18, 2002. Retrieved August 4, 2011 .
^ Ferrandis, Joaquín (November 13, 2000). "El mayor museo de las ciencias de España" [The largest science museum of Spain]. El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2022 .