2000

13 April 2000 discovery of 31956 Wald

22 April 2000 discovery of 45737 Benita

1 May 2000 discovery of 30305 Severi

2 May 2000 discovery of 30306 Frigyesriesz and 30307 Marcelriesz

1 June 2000 discovery of 30417 Staudt and 30418 Jakobsteiner

21 June 2000 discovery of 30439 Moe

22 June 2000 discovery of 30440 Larry

24 June 2000 discovery of 30441 Curly

3 July 2000 discovery of 30443 Stieltjes

5 July 2000 discovery of 30444 Shemp and 30445 Stirling

8 July 2000 discovery of 32184 Yamaura

1 August 2000 discovery of 32267 Hermannweyl

20 August 2000 discovery of 32564 Glass and 32569 Deming

3 December 2000 discovery of 41943 Fredrick

2000 discovery of Harpalyke

2000 discovery of Praxidike

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20 April 2000 Death of Philip Childs Keenan in Columbus, Ohio, USA

31 May 2000 Death of Erich Kähler

15 September 2000 Death of Frank John Kerr in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

15 September 2000 Death of Lev Pavlovich Rapoport

4 October 2000 Death of Michael Smith

22 December 2000 Death Herman Feshbach

2000 Death of William Hamilton

2000 Death of Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant

2000 Death of Klaus Halbach

2000 Death of Robert Rathbun Wilson

Nobel Prize

Physics "for basic work on information and communication technology" to Zhores I. Alferov and Herbert Kroemer "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics" and Jack S. Kilby "for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit"

Chemistry: to Alan Jay Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"

Physiology or Medicine to Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric R. Kandel "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system"

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