2000 in science

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The year 2000 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Astronomy and space exploration [ edit ]

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 .
August 10 ? Publication of the M?sigma relation in The Astrophysical Journal .

June 26 ? 'Rough draft' of the human genome is announced jointly by President of the United States Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair . ^[1]
December 14 ? The full genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is published in Nature .
10-year Census of Marine Life launched. ^[2]
A population of the Siamese crocodile , previously believed extinct in the wild since 1992, is located in the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia.

January 1 ? Year 2000 problem proves to be of little global significance. ^[3]
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.
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. ^[4]^[5]

March ? Iceberg B-15 , with a surface area of 11,000 km ² (4,200 sq mi), calves from the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica .
April ? Cave of the Crystals discovered at the Naica Mine in Mexico.

January ? Douglas Hanahan and Robert Weinberg publish " The Hallmarks of Cancer ". ^[7]
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. ^[8]

First fossil of Orrorin , an early species of Homininae , discovered in the Tugen Hills of Kenya.

November 13 ? Museu de les Ciencies Principe Felipe in Valencia , Spain, opens to the public. ^[9]

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 ? Rene 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

^ "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 , 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 .
^ Ferrandis, Joaquin (November 13, 2000). "El mayor museo de las ciencias de Espana" [The largest science museum of Spain]. El Pais (in Spanish). Madrid. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022 . Retrieved March 30, 2022 .