2000 in science - Definition and Overview

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