2000 in science

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

• December 14, the full genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is published in Nature.

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