2001 in science
The year 2001 in science and technology involved many events, some of which are included below.
Astronomy and space exploration
Biology
- January 8 – The first animal from an endangered species produced by cloning, a gaur named Noah, is born at Trans Ova Genetics in Sioux Center, Iowa. He dies within 48 hours of a common dysentery.[1][2]
- January – The second animal from an endangered species produced by cloning, a European mouflon lamb, is born in Italy.[3]
- February – 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 D. Gingerich.[4]
Computer science
Medicine
Awards
Births
Deaths
- February 24 – Claude Shannon (b. 1916), American mathematician.
- May 28 – Francisco Varela (b. 1946), Chilean biologist and philosopher.
- June 18 – René Dumont (b. 1904), French agronomist.
- August 9 – Sir Alec Skempton (b. 1914), English pioneer of soil science and engineering historian.
- August 20 – Fred Hoyle (b. 1915), English astronomer and science fiction writer.
- September 2 – Christiaan Barnard (b. 1922), South African cardiac surgeon.
- November 30 – Robert Tools (b. 1942), American first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart, after 151 days without a living heart.
- December 5 – Franco Rasetti (b. 1901), Italian American physicist.
- December 12 – Robert Schommer (b. 1946), American astronomer.
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