2002 in science
Overview of the events of 2002 in science
The year 2002 in science and technology involved some significant events
Astronomy and space science
Biology
Cartography
Computer science and cybernetics
Earth sciences
Mathematics
Palaeoarchaeology
Philosophy
Physics
Physiology and medicine
Technology
Awards
Fields Prize in Mathematics : Laurent Lafforgue and Vladimir Voevodsky
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
Physics
Raymond Davis Jr. (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) and Masatoshi Koshiba (International Center for Elementary Particle Physics , University of Tokyo, Japan) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
Riccardo Giacconi (Associated Universities Inc., Washington, D.C., USA) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
Medicine
Turing Award : Ron Rivest , Adi Shamir , and Leonard Adleman
Wollaston Medal for Geology: Rudolf Trumpy
Deaths
January 8 – Alexander Prokhorov (b. 1916 ), physicist .
February 6 – Max Perutz (b. 1914 ), biologist .
February 10 – Harold Furth (b. 1930 ), expert in plasma physics and nuclear fusion .
February 24 – David Hawkins (b. 1913 ), philosopher of science and mathematics and science educator.
February 26 – Helen Megaw (b. 1907 ), crystallographer .
March 3 – Roy Porter (b. 1946 ), medical historian .
April 9 – Leopold Vietoris (b. 1891 ), mathematician .
April 18 – Thor Heyerdahl (b. 1914 ), explorer, led the Kon-Tiki expedition.
May 2 – W. T. Tutte (b. 1917 ), mathematician and cryptanalyst .
May 20 – Stephen Jay Gould (b. 1941 ), paleontologist /evolutionist .
June 20 – Erwin Chargaff (b. 1905 ), biochemist .
June 29 – Ole-Johan Dahl (b. 1931 ), computer scientist , invented concepts in object-oriented programming .
June 30 – W. Maxwell Cowan (b. 1931), neuroanatomist .
July 4 – Laurent Schwartz (b. 1915 ), mathematician .
August 6 – Edsger Dijkstra (b. 1930 ), computer scientist.
August 31 – George Porter (b. 1920 ), Nobel laureate in chemistry .
September 6 – Orvan Hess (b. 1906 ), obstetrician .
September 21 – Robert Lull Forward (b. 1932 ), science fiction author and physicist.
September 29 – Giuliana Tesoro (b. 1921 ), Italian-American organic chemist
October 18 – Nikolai Rukavishnikov (b. 1932), cosmonaut .
November 2 – Charles Sheffield (b. 1935 ), science fiction author and physicist.
November 11 – Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind (b. 1901 ), neurologist and psychiatrist.
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