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Overview of the events of 2001 in science
The year 2001 in science and technology involved many events, some of which are included below.
Astronomy and space exploration
[edit]- 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).
- April 6 – Linda Partridge and colleagues publish their identification of the role of a specific gene in animal ageing.[4]
- April 19 – Pygmy three-toed sloth first described.[5]
- 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.[6]
- February 9 – Herbert A. Simon (b. 1916), American polymath, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.[12]
- February 13 – Ugo Fano (b. 1912), Italian-born American physicist.[13]
- February 24 – Claude Shannon (b. 1916), American mathematician.
- March 31 – Clifford Shull (b. 1915), American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate[14]
- May 5 – Wang Yinglai (b. 1907), Chinese biochemist.
- May 8 – William T. Stearn (b. 1911), English botanist.
- May 28 – Francisco Varela (b. 1946), Chilean biologist and philosopher.
- June 4 – Lu Jiaxi (b. 1915), Chinese physical chemist.
- June 18 – René Dumont (b. 1904), French agronomist.
- June 26 – John F. Yardley (b. 1925), American aeronautical engineer.
- August 9 – Sir Alec Skempton (b. 1914), English pioneer of soil science and engineering historian.
- August 15 – Kateryna Yushchenko (b. 1919), Ukrainian computer scientist and academic.[15]
- August 20 – Sir Fred Hoyle (b. 1915), English astronomer and science fiction writer.[16]
- August 31 – Doris Calloway (Nesheim) (b. 1923), American nutritionist.
- September 2 – Christiaan Barnard (b. 1922), South African cardiac surgeon.[17]
- October 31 – Warren Elliot Henry (b. 1909), African American physicist.
- 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 nuclear physicist.
- December 12 – Robert Schommer (b. 1946), American astronomer.
- ^ "First cloned endangered animal was born at 7:30 pm on Monday, 8 January 2001". Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. January 12, 2001. Archived from the original on May 31, 2008. Retrieved September 18, 2006.
- ^ Bailey, Britt (2000). "Cloning the Gaur". CETOS. Archived from the original on February 28, 2008. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
- ^ Briggs, Helen (October 1, 2001). "Endangered sheep cloned". BBC News. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
- ^ Clancy, David J.; et al. (April 6, 2001). "Extension of Life-Span by Loss of CHICO, a Drosophila Insulin Receptor Substrate Protein". Science. 292 (5514): 104–106. Bibcode:2001Sci...292..104C. doi:10.1126/science.1057991. PMID 11292874. S2CID 30331471.
- ^ Anderson, R. P.; Handley Jr., C. O. (2001). "A new species of three-toed sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from Panama, with a review of the genus Bradypus". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 114 (1): 1–33. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
- ^ "Philip D. Gingerich Ph.D." Expert List. University of Michigan. Archived from the original on July 14, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
- ^ White, Scott R.; Sottos, Nancy R.; Geubelle, P. H.; Moore, J. S.; Kessler, M. R.; Sriram, S. R.; Brown, E. N.; Viswanathan, S. (February 15, 2001). "Autonomic healing of polymer composites". Nature. 409 (6822): 794–797. Bibcode:2001Natur.409..794W. doi:10.1038/35057232. PMID 11236987. S2CID 11334883.
- ^ Berners-Lee, Tim; Hendler, James; Lassila, Ora (May 17, 2001). "The Semantic Web". Scientific American. 284 (5): 34–43. Bibcode:2001SciAm.284e..34B. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0501-34. Archived from the original on November 14, 2008. Retrieved August 23, 2012.
- ^ Beauvilain, Alain (October 5, 2006). "Toumaï: Histoire des Sciences et Histoire d'Hommes". TchadActuel. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
- ^ Beauvilain, Alain. "Toumaï". Archived from the original on March 6, 2021. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- ^ Marqués, F. M.; et al. (2002). "Detection of neutron clusters". Physical Review C. 65 (4): 044006. arXiv:nucl-ex/0111001. Bibcode:2002PhRvC..65d4006M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.65.044006. S2CID 37431352.
- ^ Edward Feigenbaum (2001). "Herbert A. Simon, 1916-2001". Science. 291 (5511): 2107. doi:10.1126/science.1060171. S2CID 180480666.
- ^ Clark, Charles W. (2001). "Obituary: Ugo Fano (1912–2001)". Nature. 410 (6825): 164. Bibcode:2001Natur.410..164C. doi:10.1038/35065786. S2CID 26743870.
- ^ Pearce Wright (April 7, 2001). "Clifford Shull". The Guardian. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
- ^ Perevozchikova, O. L. (2009). "Ekaterina Logvinovna Yushchenko". Cybernetics and Systems Analysis. 45 (6): 843. doi:10.1007/s10559-009-9161-x. S2CID 116901283.
- ^ Burbidge, G. (2003). "Sir Fred Hoyle. 24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001 Elected FRS 1957". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 49: 213–247. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2003.0013.
- ^ "Autopsy confirms asthma killed Barnard". Cyprus Mail. September 5, 2001. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved March 15, 2007.
