The Nobel prizes for 2000
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The Nobel prize winners for physiology or medicine, chemistry, physics and economics in 2000 are listed, along with a brief description of their research that made them notable. The people who received the award include Eric Kandel, Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Jack S. Kilby, Zhores I. Alferov, and Herbert Kroemer.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2000
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50, 100, and 150 years ago
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United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie's 1950 comments on mass destruction, Sklodowska Curie's research on radium in 1900, and the 1850 introduction of the Prussian breech-loading rifle are among the stories covered.
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Subject: Science and technology
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Year: 2000
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Snowball earth; ice entombed our planet hundreds of millions of years ago, and complex animals evolved in the greenhouse heat wave that followed
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Earth experienced its most dramatic ice age some 600 million years ago, in the Neoproterozoic Age. All the planet, except the very bottom of the oceans, was frozen and all but a comparatively few of the organisms died.
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Subject: Science and technology
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Year: 2000
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