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2001_in_science
2001_in_science
2001 in science
The year
2001 in
science
and
technology
involved many events, some of which are included below.
Astronomy and space exploration
Richard Ellis
,
Michael R. Santos
,
Jean-Paul Kneib
, and
Konrad Kuijken
discover a
star cluster
13.4 billion
lightyears
from
Earth
.
The
NEAR Shoemaker
spacecraft lands in the "saddle" region of
433 Eros
, becoming the first
spacecraft
to land on an
asteroid
.
The
Genesis
spacecraft is launched.
NASA
's
Galileo spacecraft
passes within 112 miles (180 km) of
Jupiter
's moon
Io
.
Biology
The publicly funded
Human Genome Project
, led by
Francis Collins
and the privately funded Celera effort, led by
Craig Venter
simultaneously publish their decoding of the
human
genome
(in
Nature
and
Science
, respectively).
Craig Venter and
Mark Adams
complete the
genetic
map of the
laboratory mouse
.
Fossil
remains of the whale
Rodhocetus Balochistanensis
found in
Balochistan
Province,
Pakistan
by
Philip Gingerich
.
Computer science
In
quantum computing
, the first working 7-qubit NMR computer is demonstrated at
IBM
's Almaden Research Center, demonstrating
Shor's algorithm
.
Medicine
July 2
- The world's first self-contained
artificial heart
is implanted in
Robert Tools
.
Awards
Nobel Prizes
Physics
-
Eric Allin Cornell
,
Wolfgang Ketterle
,
Carl E. Wieman
Chemistry
-
William S. Knowles
,
Ryoji Noyori
,
K. Barry Sharpless
Medicine
-
Leland H. Hartwell
,
R. Timothy Hunt
,
Paul M. Nurse
Turing Award
:
Ole-Johan Dahl
,
Kristen Nygaard
Wollaston Medal
for Geology:
Harry Blackmore Whittington
Births
Deaths
February 22
-
Claude E. Shannon
(b.
1916
),
mathematician
.
May 28
-
Francisco Varela
(b.
1946
),
biologist
and
philosopher
.
August 20
-
Fred Hoyle
(b.
1915
),
astronomer
and
science fiction
writer.
September 2
-
Christiaan Barnard
(b.
1922
),
surgeon
.
November 30
-
Robert Tools
, first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart, at age 59 after 151 days without a living heart.
December 5
-
Franco Rasetti
(b.
1901
),
physicist
.
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