2003 in science

• January 16 - the last start of the shuttle Columbia , 15:39 UTC .
• February 1 - the crash of the space shuttle "Columbia" . The ship exploded on landing; all seven crew members died.
• May 16 - total lunar eclipse in the equatorial zone of the Earth (phase 1.13) ^[1] .
• May 31 - annular solar eclipse (maximum phase 0.9384) ^[2] .
• June 10 - the Delta-2 launch vehicle, with the Spirit rover on board, successfully launched from the launch site at Cape Canaveral as part of the Mars Exploration Rover project.
• July 7 - the second Mars Rover Opportunity Mars rover was launched.
• October 15 - the first spacecraft with an astronaut on board, Shenzhou 5, was launched in the PRC .
• November 9 - total lunar eclipse in the southern hemisphere (phase 1.02) ^[1] .
• November 23 - total solar eclipse (maximum phase 1,0379) ^[3] .

• April - The Human Genome Project announced the almost complete sequencing of the human genome .
• June 2 - launch of the Mars-Express spacecraft of the European Space Agency , designed to study Mars .
• September 27 - the launch of Smart-1 , the first automatic station of the European Space Agency for the study of the Moon .

Discoveries

• February 11 - The WMAP spacecraft completed the first detailed mapping of the distribution of the cosmic microwave background radiation .

Inventions

• March - Intel introduced the Pentium M processor .

New animal species

• Animals described in 2003

• Nobel Prize
  • Physics - Alexey Alexeevich Abrikosov , Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg , Anthony Legget , “For the creation of a second kind of superconductivity theory and the theory of superfluidity of liquid helium-3 ”.
  • Chemistry - Peter Agra , "For the opening of the ion channel." Roderick Mackinon , "For studying the structure and mechanism of ion channels."
  • Physiology and Medicine - Paul Lauterbur , Peter Mansfield - "For the invention of the magnetic resonance imaging method."

• Baltsan Prize
  • The history of Europe of the 20th century - Eric Hobsbaum , ( Great Britain ).
  • Infrared Astronomy - Reinhard Genzel , ( Germany ).
  • Social psychology - Serge Moscovici , ( France ).
  • Genetics and theory of evolution - Wen Sung Lee , ( Taiwan - USA ).

• Computer science
  • Turing Award
    • Alan Kay - For numerous innovative ideas that formed the basis of modern object-oriented languages , leading the Smalltalk development team and making fundamental contributions to the development of the PC field .
  • Knut Award
    • Miklos Aitai .

• Abel Prize
  • Jean-Pierre Serre ( Collège de France , Paris , France ) - "For the key role in giving modern forms to many branches of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory ."

• Big gold medal named after MV Lomonosov
  • Evgeny Ivanovich Chazov - for his fundamental contribution to the development of cardiology.
  • Michael DeBakey - for outstanding achievements in the field of heart surgery .

• International Biology Prize
  • Shinya Inoué - cell biology.

• Leeuwenhoek Medal
  • Karl Stetter , Germany.

• Prize of I. Ya. Pomeranchuk
  • Freeman Dyson .

• January 6 - Oleg Makarov , Russian cosmonaut .
• April 18 - Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd , a British scientist, whose work laid the foundations of relational databases .
• May 28 - Ilya Prigogine , Belgian scientist, winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
• July 12 - Evgeny Alekseevich Torchinov (b. 1956 ), Russian religious scholar.
• July 19 - Yuri Ivanovich Vitinsky , Soviet astronomer.
• September 25 - Alexander Sergeevich Panarin , an outstanding Russian political scientist, philosopher, public figure, professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.
• October 13 - Bertram Brockhouse , Canadian physicist , winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994 "for the creation of neutron spectroscopy" (with Clifford Shall ).
• November 2 - Lev Gorlitsky , Soviet designer of armored vehicles .
• November 4 - Petr G. Kulikovskiy , Soviet astronomer, author of the “Astronomy Lover's Guide”.