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30 Nov 1999
Census of Marine Life |
Census of Marine Life (biology) 10-year Census of Marine Life launched. |
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30 Nov 1999
Turing Award |
Turing Award (awards) Turing Award: Andrew Yao |
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30 Nov 1999
Wollaston Medal for Geology |
Wollaston Medal for Geology (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Sefton Fyfe |
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19 Jan 2000
G. Ledyard Stebbins |
death G. Ledyard Stebbins G. Ledyard Stebbins (b. 1906), American botanist and geneticist. |
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31 Jan 2000
English |
English (medicine) 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. |
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04 Mar 2000
Sony Computer Entertainment |
Sony Computer Entertainment (computer science) Sony Computer Entertainment release the PlayStation 2 sixth generation home video game console in Japan. |
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07 Mar 2000
W. D. Hamilton |
death W. D. Hamilton W. D. Hamilton (b. 1936), English evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. |
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10 Mar 2000
Nim Chimpsky |
death Nim Chimpsky Nim Chimpsky (b. 1973), chimpanzee |
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14 Mar 2000
Stephen King |
Stephen King (computer science) Stephen King's horror story Riding the Bullet is published in e-book format only, the world's first mass-market electronic book. |
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19 May 2000
Yevgeny Khrunov |
death Yevgeny Khrunov Yevgeny Khrunov (b. 1933), cosmonaut |
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10 Jun 2000
Millenium Bridge |
Millenium Bridge In 2000, the Millenium Bridge - a footbridge across the River Thames - was opened by Queen Elizabeth. The radical new design was the work of architect Sir Norman Foster with sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and engineering support from Arup. It was the first new crossing of the River Thames in over 100. As the first few thousand people crossed the bridge, it developed an unexpected and potentially dangerous lateral "wobble". This caused people to unwittingly walk "in step", which increased the oscillation. The design had been adapted from a computer model typical for a car bridge, but which did not take into account the lateral forces associated with human walking. After structural damping was added to stop the oscillation, the bridge re-opened in 2002. |
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14 Jun 2000
Elsie Widdowson |
death Elsie Widdowson Elsie Widdowson (b. 1908), nutritionist |
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26 Jun 2000
human genome |
human genome (biology) 'Rough draft' of the human genome is announced jointly by President of the United States Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. |
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08 Jul 2000
W. David Kingery |
death W. David Kingery W. David Kingery (b. 1926), materials scientist specializing in ceramic materials |
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20 Sep 2000
Gherman Stepanovich Titov |
death Gherman Stepanovich Titov Died 20 Sep 2000 at age 65 (born 11 Sep 1935). Russian cosmonaut who was pilot of the Vostok 2 spacecraft on its 6-7 Aug 1961 orbital flight of 25 hrs 18 min. His spacecraft carried life-support equipment, radio and television for monitoring the condition of the cosmonaut, tape recorder, telemetry system, biological experiments, and automatic and manual control equipment. After Yuri Gagarin, Titov was the second human to orbit the Earth but was the first person to orbit more than once, the first to spend more than a day in space, and the first to sleep in space. He died holding the record as the youngest person in space (age 25). Titov was selected for cosmonaut training in 1960. After his spaceflight, Titov held senior positions in the Soviet space programme until his retirement in 1992. |
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20 Sep 2000
Gherman Titov |
death Gherman Titov Gherman Titov (b. 1935), cosmonaut |
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04 Oct 2000
Michael Smith |
death Michael Smith Michael Smith (b. 1932), chemist, 1993 Nobel Prize winner |
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20 Nov 2000
Nikolay Dollezhal |
death Nikolay Dollezhal Nikolay Dollezhal (b. 1899), a key figure in Soviet atomic bomb project and chief designer of nuclear reactors |
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