2001 in science

none July 2011 2001 science 2001 The year 2001 in science and technology involved many events, some of which are included below. Astronomy and space exploration February 12 – The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lands in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. June 21 – Solar eclipse of June 21, 2001, a total eclipse. August 8 – NASA's Genesis spacecraft is launched. October 15 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io. November 27 – The Hubble Space Telescope detects sodium in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b, the first exoplanet atmosphere to be measured. December 14 – Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001, an annular eclipse. Biology January 8 – The first animal from an endangered species produced by cloning, a gaur named Noah, is born at Trans Ova Genetics in Sioux Center, Iowa. He dies within 48 hours of a common dysentery.2001-01-12 Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. First cloned endangered animal was born at 7:30 pm on Monday, 8 January 2001 2006-09-18 http://www.advancedcell.com/press-release/advanced-cell-technology-inc-announced-that-the-first-cloned-endangered-animal-was-born-at-730-pm-on-monday-january-8-2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20080531142827/http://www.advancedcell.com/press-release/advanced-cell-technology-inc-announced-that-the-first-cloned-endangered-animal-was-born-at-730-pm-on-monday-january-8-2001 2008-05-31Britt Bailey Cloning the Gaur http://environmentalcommons.org/cetos/articles/cloninggaur.html CETOS 2000 2011-11-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20080228161917/http://environmentalcommons.org/cetos/articles/cloninggaur.html February 28, 2008 January – The second animal from an endangered species produced by cloning, a European mouflon lamb, is born in Italy.Helen Briggs http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1573309.stm Endangered sheep cloned BBC News 2001-10-01 2011-11-02 February – The publicly funded Human Genome Project, led by Francis Collins and the privately funded Celera effort, led by Craig Venter simultaneously publish their decoding of the human genome (in Nature and Science, respectively). April 6 – Linda Partridge and colleagues publish their identification of the role of a specific gene in animal ageing.Extension of Life-Span by Loss of CHICO, a Drosophila Insulin Receptor Substrate Protein Clancy, David J. Science 2001-04-06 292 5514 104–106 10.1126/science.1057991 etal 11292874 2001Sci...292..104C 30331471 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=bioscifacpub subscription April 19 – Pygmy three-toed sloth first described.Anderson R. P. Handley Jr. C. O. A new species of three-toed sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from Panama, with a review of the genus Bradypus Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 114 1 1–33 2001 https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofb1142001biol 2016-06-13 Craig Venter and Mark Adams complete the genetic map of the laboratory mouse. Fossil remains of the whale Rodhocetus balochistanensis found in Balochistan province, Pakistan, by Philip D. Gingerich.http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/public/experts/ExpDisplay.php?ExpID=293 Philip D. Gingerich Ph.D. University of Michigan Expert List 2011-11-02 http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090714132040/http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/public/experts/ExpDisplay.php?ExpID=293 July 14, 2009 Chemistry February 15 – Production of a capsule-based fibre-reinforced polymer composite self-healing material is announced.White Scott R. Sottos Nancy R. Geubelle P. H. Moore J. S. Kessler M. R. Sriram S. R. Brown E. N. Viswanathan S. Autonomic healing of polymer composites Nature 2001-02-15 409 6822 794–797 10.1038/35057232 11236987 2001Natur.409..794W 11334883 Nancy Sottos Computer science January 9 – Apple Inc. releases the iTunes media player (modified from SoundJam MP). January 15 – Wikipedia launches on the internet. May – Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues name the Semantic Web.Berners-Lee Tim Hendler, James Lassila, Ora The Semantic Web Scientific American May 17, 2001 284 5 34–43 10.1038/scientificamerican0501-34 2001SciAm.284e..34B http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web&print=true 2012-08-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20081114135540/http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web&print=true November 14, 2008 subscription August 24 – Windows XP personal computer operating system released by Microsoft; it is available for retail sale on October 25. October 23 – Apple Inc. unveil the first generation iPod portable media player. December 1–2 – The Budapest Open Access Initiative, a public statement of principles promoting open access to research literature, is launched at a conference convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute. December – The C# programming language specification is released. In quantum computing, the first working 7-qubit NMR computer is demonstrated at IBM's Almaden Research Center, demonstrating Shor's algorithm. Chatterbot Eugene Goostman is developed. The Walkman Circ is released. Medicine July 2 – The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools in the United States. Adult-onset basal ganglia disease caused by Ferritin light chain (FTL) mutations is described. Paleontology July – First fossil skull fragments of the hominid 'Toumaï' (Sahelanthropus tchadensis; 7 million years BP) found by a team led by Michel Brunet in Chad.TchadActuel http://www.tchadactuel.com/n6.php?2006/10/05/23-toumai-histoire-des-sciences-et-histoire-dhommes-alain-beauvilain Toumaï: Histoire des Sciences et Histoire d'Hommes Alain Beauvilain 2006-10-05 2012-03-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20120308103755/http://www.tchadactuel.com/n6.php?2006%2F10%2F05%2F23-toumai-histoire-des-sciences-et-histoire-dhommes-alain-beauvilain March 8, 2012Toumaï http://toumai.site.voila.fr/2.humanadventure.html Alain Beauvilain 2012-03-15 March 6, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210306210453/https://www.118712.fr/sortir.html Philosophy 2001 in philosophy Physics Francisco-Miguel Marqués and co-workers at the Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds in Caen claim to detect a tetraneutron;Marqués F. M. etal 2002 Detection of neutron clusters Physical Review C 65 4 044006 10.1103/PhysRevC.65.044006 nucl-ex/0111001 2002PhRvC..65d4006M 37431352 reproducibility of this observation has not been possible. Awards Nobel Prizes Physics – Eric Allin Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman Chemistry – William S. Knowles, Ryōji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless Medicine – Leland H. Hartwell, R. Timothy Hunt, Paul M. Nurse Turing Award: Ole-Johan Dahl, Kristen Nygaard Wollaston Medal for Geology: Harry Blackmore Whittington Deaths February 9 – Herbert A. Simon (b. 1916), American polymath, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.Herbert A. Simon, 1916-2001 Edward Feigenbaum 2001 Science 291 5511 2107 10.1126/science.1060171 180480666 Edward Feigenbaum February 13 – Ugo Fano (b. 1912), Italian-born American physicist. Clark Charles W. Nature Obituary: Ugo Fano (1912–2001) 410 6825 164 10.1038/35065786 2001 2001Natur.410..164C 26743870 free February 24 – Claude Shannon (b. 1916), American mathematician. March 31 – Clifford Shull (b. 1915), American physicist, Nobel Prize laureatehttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/apr/07/guardianobituaries.physicalsciences Clifford Shull April 7, 2001 The Guardian Pearce Wright April 8, 2021 May 5 – Wang Yinglai (b. 1907), Chinese biochemist. May 8 – William T. Stearn (b. 1911), English botanist. May 28 – Francisco Varela (b. 1946), Chilean biologist and philosopher. June 4 – Lu Jiaxi (b. 1915), Chinese physical chemist. June 18 – René Dumont (b. 1904), French agronomist. June 26 – John F. Yardley (b. 1925), American aeronautical engineer. August 9 – Sir Alec Skempton (b. 1914), English pioneer of soil science and engineering historian. August 15 – Kateryna Yushchenko (b. 1919), Ukrainian computer scientist and academic.Perevozchikova O. L. Ekaterina Logvinovna Yushchenko Cybernetics and Systems Analysis 45 6 2009 843 10.1007/s10559-009-9161-x 116901283 August 20 – Sir Fred Hoyle (b. 1915), English astronomer and science fiction writer. Burbidge G. Geoffrey Burbidge 10.1098/rsbm.2003.0013 Sir Fred Hoyle. 24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001 Elected FRS 1957 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 49 213–247 2003 free August 31 – Doris Calloway (Nesheim) (b. 1923), American nutritionist. September 2 – Christiaan Barnard (b. 1922), South African cardiac surgeon.Autopsy confirms asthma killed Barnard 5 September 2001 http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main_old.php?id=4655&archive=1 Cyprus Mail 15 March 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070927202905/http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main_old.php?id=4655&archive=1 27 September 2007 October 31 – Warren Elliot Henry (b. 1909), African American physicist. November 30 – Robert Tools (b. 1942), American first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart, after 151 days without a living heart. December 5 – Franco Rasetti (b. 1901), Italian American nuclear physicist. December 12 – Robert Schommer (b. 1946), American astronomer. References Category:21st century in science Category:2000s in science