Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 2000 in science The year 2000 CE 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. Table of contents 1 Astronomy and space exploration 2 Biology 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths Astronomy and space exploration April 7 - Mars Odyssey is launched. Biology The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae's genome is sequenced. Awards Nobel Prize Physics - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S Kilby Chemistry - Alan J Heeger, Alan G MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa Medicine - Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R Kandel Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Sefton Fyfe Births Deaths May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut September 20 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.