Overview of the events of 2000 in science
The year 2000 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy and space exploration [ edit ] Conjunction of planets, Moon, and Sun on May 4, 2000 History of science and technology [ edit ] 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 ^ Watari, Shinichi; Kunitake, Manabu; Watanabe, Takashi (January 2001). "The Bastille Day (14 July 2000) event in historical large sun-earth connection events" . Solar Physics . 204 : 425– 438. Bibcode :2001SoPh..204..425W . doi :10.1023/A:1014273227639 . S2CID 117394988 . Retrieved January 2, 2021 . ^ "First crew starts living and working on the International Space Station" . European Space Agency. October 31, 2000. Archived from the original on December 17, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2021 .^ Smith, Kiona N. (January 23, 2021). "The Species That Went Extinct Twice" . Forbes . Archived from the original on January 31, 2021. ^ "White House Press Release" . Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved August 4, 2011 .^ "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 .^ Smith, D. R.; Padilla, WJ; Vier, DC; Nemat-Nasser, SC; Schultz, S (2000). "Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity" . Physical Review Letters . 84 (18): 4184– 7. Bibcode :2000PhRvL..84.4184S . doi :10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4184 ISSN 0031-9007 . PMID 10990641 . ^ McDonald, Kim (March 21, 2000). "UCSD Physicists Develop a New Class of Composite Material with 'Reverse' Physical Properties Never Before Seen" . UCSD Science and Engineering. Archived from the original on June 11, 2011. Retrieved December 17, 2010 . ^ Ferrandis, Joaquín (November 13, 2000). "El mayor museo de las ciencias de España" El País Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2022 . 
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