The year 2003 was an exciting one for new scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs progress in many scientific fields. Some of the highlights of 2003, which will be further discussed below, include: the anthropologic discovery of 350,000-year-old footprints attesting to the presence of upright-walking humans; SpaceShipOne flight 11P making its first supersonic flight; the observation of a previously unknown element, moscovium was made; and the world's first digital camera with an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is released by Kodak.

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The year 2003 is also notable for the disintegration of the Columbia Space Shuttle upon its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, a tragic disaster which took the lives of all seven astronauts on board; the Concorde jet made its last flight, bringing to an end the era of civilian supersonic travel, at least for the time being; and the death of Edward Teller, physicist and inventor of the hydrogen bomb.

Anthropology

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  • March 13 – The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been found in Italy.

Astronomy

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Mars retrograde motion during perigee 2003

Biology

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Chemistry

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Mathematics

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Medicine

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Meteorology

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  • NOAA hurricane experts issue first experimental Eastern Pacific Hurricane Outlook.

Philosophy

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Space exploration

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Technology

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Awards

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Births

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Deaths

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Notes

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  1. ^ Boyle, Gary (2003-08-25). "Seeing the Red Planet". Starry Nights. Archived from the original on 2011-08-27. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  2. ^ Brown, Michael E.; Trujillo, Chadwick; Rabinowitz, David (10 December 2004). "Discovery of a Candidate Inner Oort Cloud Planetoid". The Astrophysical Journal. 617 (1): 645–649. arXiv:astro-ph/0404456. Bibcode:2004ApJ...617..645B. doi:10.1086/422095. S2CID 7738201.
  3. ^ Wada, S.; Oishi, M.; Yamada, T. K. (2003). "A newly discovered species of living baleen whale". Nature. 426 (6964): 278–281. Bibcode:2003Natur.426..278W. doi:10.1038/nature02103. OCLC 110553472. PMID 14628049. S2CID 4301170.
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  5. ^ Pearson, Sue; Jia, Hepeng; Kandachi, Keiko (2004). "China approves first gene therapy". Nature Biotechnology. 22 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 3–4. doi:10.1038/nbt0104-3. ISSN 1087-0156. PMC 7097065. PMID 14704685.
  6. ^ Amos, Jonathan (2015-01-16). "Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars". BBC News. Retrieved 2015-01-17.
  7. ^ Belfiore, Michael (2007). Rocketeers: how a visionary band of business leaders, engineers, and pilots is boldly privatizing space. New York: Smithsonian Books. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-06-114903-0.
  8. ^ Highfield, Roger (2003-12-24). "Dewey the deer is latest clone". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2003-07-01.
  9. ^ Bhattacharya, Shaoni (2003-08-06). "World's first cloned horse is born". New Scientist. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
  10. ^ "Dolly the sheep". National Museums Scotland. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2018.