| Dates | Characters | Theories and discoveries |
| 2000 | Fermilab | Tau neutrino observed |
| 2000 | NASA/ESA | Aurora surrounding Jupiter |
| 2001 | NASA/ESA | Observation of a dark matter object |
| 2003 | NASA/ESA | The atmosphere of an extrasolar planet |
| 2007 | John Beamish | Breakthrough in understanding of supersolidity of helium |
| 2008 | NASA/ESA | Galaxy clusters acting as gravitational lenses |






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