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8 Awards
Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
:
Linda B. Buck
and
Richard Axel
Nobel Prize in Physics
:
David J. Gross
,
H. David Politzer
and
Frank Wilczek
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
:
Aaron Ciechanover
,
Avram Hershko
and
Irwin Rose
Abel Prize in Mathematics
:
Michael F. Atiyah
and
Isadore M. Singer
Millennium Technology Prize
(inaugural year):
World Wide Web
inventor
Tim Berners-Lee
9 Appointments
February 12
- Arden Bement , acting director of the
U.S.A's
National Science Foundation
.
August 26
- Neurobiologist
Susan Hockfield
is appointed as President of
MIT
.
November 19
- Particle physicist
Piermaria Oddone
is appointed to succeed Michael Witherell as director of
Fermilab
(from July 1, 2005).
10 Births
11 Deaths
March 15
William Pickering
(b.
1910
), former head of
NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
.
Sir John Pople
(b.
1925
),
British
Nobel prize
winning Chemist.
July 3
-
Andrian Nikolayev
(b.
1929
),
cosmonaut
.
July 28
-
Francis Crick
(b.
1916
),
American
Nobelaureate in Physiology
for discovering the
double helix
structure for
DNA
.
August 12
-
John Clark
(b.
1951
), head of the
Roslin Institute
and part of the team that cloned
Dolly the Sheep
.
August 15
-
Sune K. Bergström
(b.
1916
),
Swedish
biochemist
, winner of the
1982
Nobel Prize for Medicine
.
August 31
-
Fred Whipple
(b.
1906
),
American
astronomer
who coined the term "dirty snowball" to explain the nature of
comet
s.
October 5
-
Maurice Wilkins
(b.
1916
),
Nobelaureate in Physiology
for discovering the
double helix
structure for
DNA
using
X-ray
diffraction.
November 18
-
Robert Bacher
(b.
1905
), nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the
Manhattan Project
, Professor and Provost of the
California Institute of Technology
.
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