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The year 2003 in Science and Technology observed many events, some of which are included in the list below.

ANTHROPOLOGY

March 13 - The journal '' Nature '' reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking Human Footprint s had been found in Italy .

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

February 1 - Space Shuttle Columbia Disintegrates over Texas upon Reentry killing all seven Astronauts onboard.

February 11 - NASA 's WMAP takes first detailed "baby picture" of the Universe . The image reveals the universe is 13.7 billion years old (within one percent error) and provides evidence that supports the Inflationary theory.

May 31 - Annular Solar Eclipse in Northern Scotland , Faroe Islands , Greenland , and Iceland , with partial eclipse covering much of Europe and Russia .

June 2 - Mars Express European Space Agency mission launched.

August 27 - Perigee of Mars , closest of Mars since 57,617 BC

September 27 - Smart 1 is launched.

October 15 - The People's Republic Of China launches Shenzhou 5 , their first manned space mission.

October - November - The Sun is at solar maximum with a period of high activity, generating many large Solar Flare s and Coronal Mass Ejection s.

November 23 - Total solar eclipse in Antarctica .

December 25 - Mars Express enters orbit around Mars . Its lander, Beagle 2 was to land on the surface but is lost (presumed crashed).

The 2dF Survey of Galaxy Redshift s is published.

BIOLOGY

October 13 - The Open Access Scientific Journal ''PLoS Biology'' from the Public Library Of Science , commences operation.

MEDICINE

February 26 - A US Businessman is diagnosed with the first known case of SARS in Hanoi, Vietnam by WHO doctor Carlo Urbani .

METEOROLOGY

NOAA Hurricane experts issue first experimental Eastern Pacific Hurricane Outlook

TECHNOLOGY

March - The world's first Digital Camera with an Organic Light-emitting Diode (''OLED'') display is released by Kodak .

July 30 - The last old-style Volkswagen Beetle rolled of its production line in Puebla, Puebla , Mexico .

October 24 - Concorde makes its last flight, bringing the era of civilian Supersonic Travel to a close, at least for the time being.

Intel releases the Pentium M Microprocessor .

AWARDS

Nobel Prize

---, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg , and Anthony James Leggett

--- and Roderick MacKinnon

--- and Sir Peter Mansfield

BIRTHS

May 28 - Prometea , the first Clone d Horse .

DEATHS

February 1 - The crew of STS-107

--- Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959 )

--- David Brown (b. 1956 )

--- Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961 )

--- Laurel Clark (b. 1961 )

--- Rick D. Husband (b. 1957 )

--- William C. McCool (b. 1961 )

--- Ilan Ramon (b. 1954 )

February 14 - Dolly The Sheep (b. 1996 ), the world's first cloned Mammal .

March 29 - Carlo Urbani (b. 1956 ), Physician , discoverer of SARS .

April 17 - Dr. Robert Atkins (b. 1930 ), Nutritionist .

May 28 - Ilya Prigogine (b. 1917 ), chemist, Nobellaurette In Chemistry .

May 28 - Oleg Makarov (b. 1933 ), Cosmonaut

September 9 - Edward Teller (b. 1908 ), Physicist , inventor of the Hydrogen Bomb .

October 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse (b. 1918 ), physicist.

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