2000 in science

The year 2000 in science and technology consisted of many events, some of which are included below.

See also: 1999 in science, other events of 2000, 2001 in science, and the list of years in science.

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

Deaths

• May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
• September 20 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut
• October 4 - Michael Smith, chemist, 1993 Nobel Prize winner