''See also:''
Other Events Of 2002
List Of Years In Science
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2001 In Science
2003 In Science
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and Technology involved many events, some of which are included below.
- Nobel Prize s
- --- Chemistry
-- John B. Fenn ( Virginia Commonwealth University , Richmond, USA) and Koichi Tanaka ( Shimadzu Corp. , Kyoto, Japan) "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
-- Kurt Wüthrich ( Swiss Federal Institute Of Technology (ETH), Zürich , Switzerland and The Scripps Research Institute , La Jolla, USA) "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"
- --- 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 DC, USA) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
- --- Medicine
-- Sydney Brenner , H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"
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- January 8 - Alexander Prochorow (b. 1916 ), Physicist , Nobellaurette In Physics in 1964
- February 6 - Max Perutz (b. 1914 ), Biologist .
- February 10 - Harold Furth (b. 1930 ), expert in Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion .
- April 18 - Thor Heyerdahl (b. 1914 ), explorer, led the '' Kon-Tiki '' expedition.
- 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 .
- July 4 - Laurent Schwartz (b. 1915 ), Mathematician .
- August 6 - Edsger Dijkstra (b. 1930 ), computer scientist.
- September 21 - Robert Lull Forward (b. 1932 ), Science Fiction author and physicist.
- October 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov (b. 1932 ), Cosmonaut .
- November 2 - Charles Sheffield (b. 1935 ), science fiction author and physicist.
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