Events, discoveries and inventions
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February
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3 April – Dr. Yinfa Ma develops a method for pre-cancer screening that uses urine samples for detection. Ma hopes to be able to predict types of cancer as well as severity.[17]
4 April – A new method developed by Cornell biological engineers offers an efficient way to make proteins for use in medicine or industry without the use of live cells.[18]
5 April – Japanese engineers build a childlike robot , the Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, and report that it is slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship.[19]
22 July – A total solar eclipse – the longest-lasting total eclipse of the 21st century – takes place.[22]
23 July – Two teams of Chinese researchers create live mice from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.[23]
September
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3 September – Saturn 's rings cross the plane of the Earth's orbit. This was the first such crossing since May 22, 1995, and another will not occur until March 23, 2025.[24]
29 September – NASA 's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its final flyby of Mercury , decreasing velocity enough for its orbital capture in 2011.[25]
1 October – Paleontologists announce the discovery of an Ardipithecus ramidus fossil skeleton, deeming it the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor yet found.[26]
20 October – European astronomers discover 32 new exoplanets .[27]
December
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2 January – Olgierd Zienkiewicz , Polish -British civil engineer (b. 1921 ).
11 January – Frederic Richards , American biochemist and biophysicist known for solving the crystal structure of the ribonuclease S enzyme in 1967 and for defining the concept of solvent-accessible surface (b. 1925 ).
14 January – Aron Arthur Moscona , American developmental biologist (b. 1921 ).
26 January – Nina L. Etkin , American anthropologist and biologist (b. 1948 ).
30 January – Rudolf Trümpy , Swiss geologist (b. 1921).
11 February – Willem Johan Kolff , American physician , inventor of artificial organs (b. 1911 ).[31]
2 March – Jacob T. Schwartz , American mathematician , and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (b. 1930 ).
11 March – David Medved , American physicist (b. 1926 ).
22 March – John L. Harper , British biologist, specializing in ecology and plant population biology (b. 1925 ).
9 April – Carl Rettenmeyer , American biologist who specialised in army ants (b. 1931 ).
2 May – Léopold Reichling , Luxembourg biologist and naturalist (b. 1921 ).
19 May – Robert F. Furchgott , American biochemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1916 ).
21 May – Albert (Ab) C. Perdeck , Dutch ornithologist , automobile accident (b. 1923 ).
31 May – Emil L. Smith , American biochemist who studied protein structure and function as well as biochemical evolution (b. 1911 ).
6 June – Jean Dausset , French immunologist and Nobel laureate (b. 1916 ).
8 June – Howard McKern , Australian analytical and organic chemist (b. 1917 ).
10 June – John A. Eddy , American astronomer (b. 1931 ).
20 June – Ralph F. Hirschmann , German American biochemist who led a team that was responsible for the first organic synthesis of an enzyme , a ribonuclease (b. 1922 ).
13 August – Laurel van der Wal , American aeronautical engineer (b. 1924 ).
29 August – Nicole Grasset , Swiss-French medical virologist , microbiologist and epidemiologist (b. 1927 ).
9 September
12 September – Norman Borlaug , American agronomist , humanitarian and Nobel laureate (b. 1914 ).
18 September – Mahlon Hoagland , American biochemist who discovered transfer RNA (tRNA) (b. 1921 ).
6 October – Ruth L. Kirschstein , American pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (b. 1926 ).
14 October – Francis Muguet , French chemist who advocated open access to information (b. 1955 ).
18 October – Ignacio Ponseti , Menorcan -born pediatric orthopedist (b. 1914 ).
27 October – Paul Zamecnik , American scientist who played a central role in the early history of molecular biology (b. 1912 ).
29 October – Bei Shizhang , Chinese biologist and founder of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (b. 1903 ).
8 November – Vitaly Ginzburg , Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist , astrophysicist , Nobel laureate , a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the developers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb .
3 November – Warren Lyford DeLano , American bioinformatician and open source advocate (b. 1972 ).
9 November – Don Beaven , New Zealand medical researcher in the area of diabetes treatment and prevention (b. 1924 ).
29 November – Andrew Donald Booth , British physicist and computer scientist (b. 1918 ).
3 December – Brian Harold Mason , New Zealand-born geochemist and mineralogist , pioneer in the study of meteorites (b. 1917 ).
8 December – Remy Chauvin , French biologist and entomologist (b. 1913 ).
17 December – Samuel Victor Perry , English biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of muscle biochemistry (b. 1918 ).
21 December – Edwin G. Krebs , American biochemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1918 ).
See also
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