2000 in science

none July 2011 2000 science 2000 The year 2000 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy and space exploration 240px|thumb|Conjunction of planets, Moon, and Sun on May 4, 2000 May 4 – A rare astronomical conjunction occurs on the new moon including all seven of the traditional celestial bodies known from ancient times until the discovery of Uranus in 1781; this conjunction consists of the Sun and Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. July 14 – Bastille Day solar storm: A powerful solar flare causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.The Bastille Day (14 July 2000) event in historical large sun-earth connection events January 2001 10.1023/A:1014273227639 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226083577 2021-01-02 Watari Shinichi Kunitake Manabu Watanabe Takashi Solar Physics 204 425–438 2001SoPh..204..425W 117394988 August 10 – Publication of the M–sigma relation in The Astrophysical Journal. November 2 – Expedition 1 to the International Space Station begins.2000-10-31 First crew starts living and working on the International Space Station European Space Agency https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/International_Space_Station/First_crew_starts_living_and_working_on_the_International_Space_Station 2021-01-24 2018-12-17 https://web.archive.org/web/20181217064333/http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/International_Space_Station/First_crew_starts_living_and_working_on_the_International_Space_Station live Biology January 6 – The last naturally conceived Pyrenean ibex is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/01/23/the-species-that-went-extinct-twice The Species That Went Extinct Twice Smith Kiona N. 2021-01-23 Forbes https://web.archive.org/web/20210131073011/https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/01/23/the-species-that-went-extinct-twice/ 2021-01-31 live June 26 – 'First draft' of the Human Genome Project is announced jointly by President of the United States Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/clinton1.shtml White House Press Release 2026-03-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20110629132412/http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/clinton1.shtml 2011-06-29 dead December 14 – The full genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is published in Nature. A population of the Siamese crocodile, previously believed extinct in the wild since 1992, is located in the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia. 10-year Census of Marine Life launched.Census of Marine Life http://www.coml.org/ 2011-10-10 Computer science January 1 – Year 2000 problem proves to be of little global significance.Center for Y2K and Society Records, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. March 4 – Sony Computer Entertainment releases the PlayStation 2 sixth generation home video game console in Japan. March 14 – Stephen King's horror story Riding the Bullet is published in e-book format only, the world's first mass-market electronic book. May 5 – After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world. September – First system enabling the selection, automatic downloading and storage of serial episodic audio content on PCs and portable devices, origin of the podcast, is launched by early MP3 player manufacturer i2Go.http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/ego.html I2Go eGo December 26, 2020 February 24, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200224095257/http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/ego.html deadhttp://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2001/09/10/newscolumn1.html 2Go is gone after burning through $7 million Atlanta Business Chronicle Mary Jane Credeur 2001-09-10 Earth sciences March – Iceberg B-15, with a surface area of 11,000 km2 (4,200 sq mi), calves from the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica. April – Cave of the Crystals discovered at the Naica Mine in Mexico. History of science and technology August 8 – The Confederate States of America submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor. Mathematics Omer Reingold, Salil Vadhan and Avi Wigderson introduce the zig-zag product.O. Reingold S. Vadhan A. Wigderson 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) 2000 10.1109/SFCS.2000.892006 3–13 math/0406038 0-7695-0850-2 420651 . Medicine January – Douglas Hanahan and Robert Weinberg publish "The Hallmarks of Cancer".Hanahan Douglas Weinberg Robert A. The Hallmarks of Cancer Cell 100 1 57–70 January 2000 10647931 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81683-9 free January 31 – English doctor Harold Shipman is found guilty of killing fifteen of his elderly patients by lethal injections of diamorphine, the only British physician ever convicted of murdering his patients; he is actually considered to have killed at least 215.Harold Shipman: Timeline BBC News 2002-07-18 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2136444.stm 2011-08-04 June 20 – Cardiac surgeon Stephen Westaby and team at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford (England) perform the first successful implant of a permanent electrical artificial heart, a Jarvik 2000 artificial left ventricular assist device, a turbine pump. The patient, psychotherapist Peter Houghton, survives for over 7 years using the machine until his death from unrelated causes.http://www.jarvikheart.com/basic.asp?id=63 The Jarvik 2000: The First Lifetime-Use Patient Jarvik Heart, Inc 2026-04-19 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20101121172612/http://www.jarvikheart.com/basic.asp?id=63 2010-11-21 Wayback MachineStephen Westaby Open Heart 2017 HarperCollins Paleontology First fossil of Orrorin, an early species of Homininae, discovered in the Tugen Hills of Kenya. Philosophy 2000 in philosophy Physics May 1 – A new class of composite material is fabricated, which has a combination of physical properties never before seen in a natural or human-made material.10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4184 10990641 Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity S Schultz SC Nemat-Nasser DC Vier WJ 2000 Padilla Smith D. R. Physical Review Letters 84 18 4184–7 2000PhRvL..84.4184S free 0031-9007McDonald, Kim UCSD Physicists Develop a New Class of Composite Material with 'Reverse' Physical Properties Never Before Seen http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mccomposite.htm UCSD Science and Engineering March 21, 2000 December 17, 2010 June 11, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110611235821/http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mccomposite.htm live Institutions November 13 – Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe in Valencia, Spain, opens to the public.https://elpais.com/diario/2000/11/13/cvalenciana/974146687_850215.html El mayor museo de las ciencias de España The largest science museum of Spain 2000-11-13 es El País Madrid Joaquín Ferrandis limited 2022-03-30 live https://web.archive.org/web/20220331195031/https://elpais.com/diario/2000/11/13/cvalenciana/974146687_850215.html 2022-03-31 Awards Nobel Prizes Physics – Zhores 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 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 References Category:20th century in science Category:2000s in science