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Element 116 (ununhexium) -------- 15 January 2001 discovery of 42113 Jura 11 February 2001 discovery of 43511 Cima Ekar 14 February 2001 discovery of 42191 Thurmann 17 June 2001 Death of Donald James Cram 29 July 2001 discovery of 30566 Stokes 2001 discovery of Aitne 2001 discovery of Autonoe 2001 discovery of Eurydome 2001 discovery of Thyone -- 31 March 2001 Death of Clifford Glenwood Shull 1 Juily 2001 Death of Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov 20 August 2001 Death of Fred Hoyle in Bournemouth, Dorset, England 2001 Death of John Myrick Dawson Nobel Prize Physics to Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates" Chemistry to William S. Knowles and Ryoji Noyori "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" andto Karl Barry Sharpless "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions" Physiology or Medicine to Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt and Sir Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
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