Editing 2000 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 12 – [[Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau]] (b. [[1910 in science|1910]]), [[Americans|American]] chemical engineer
* January 19 – [[G. Ledyard Stebbins]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), American [[botanist]] and [[geneticist]]
* March 7 – [[W. D. Hamilton]] (b. [[1936 in science|1936]]), [[English people|English]] [[evolutionary biologist]], widely recognised as one of the greatest [[evolution]]ary theorists of the 20th century
* March 10 – [[Nim Chimpsky]] (b. [[1973 in science|1973]]), [[Common chimpanzee|chimpanzee]]
* May 6 – [[John Clive Ward]] (b. [[1924 in science|1924]]), English-born [[physicist]]
* May 19 – [[Yevgeny Khrunov]] (b. [[1933 in science|1933]]), [[astronaut|cosmonaut]]
* June 14 – [[Elsie Widdowson]] (b. [[1908 in science|1908]]), English [[nutritionist]]
* July 8 – [[W. David Kingery]] (b. [[1926 in science|1926]]), American [[materials scientist]] specializing in [[ceramic materials]]
* July 14 – Sir [[Mark Oliphant]] (b. [[1901 in science|1901]]), Australian nuclear physicist
* July 29 – [[René Favaloro]] (b. [[1923 in science|1923]]), Argentine cardiac surgeon
* September 20 – [[Gherman Titov]] (b. [[1935 in science|1935]]), cosmonaut
* October 4 – [[Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith]] (b. [[1932 in science|1932]]), English-born Canadian chemist, 1993 Nobel Prize winner
* November 20  – [[Nikolay Dollezhal]] (b. [[1899 in science|1899]]), a key figure in Soviet atomic bomb project and chief designer of nuclear reactors