On December 6, 2001, Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder and retired co-chairman of Atlanta-based Home Depot, reached a preliminary agreement with the Falcons ’ Taylor Smith to purchase the team.

Also known as the D-Backs, Arizona has one World Series title, in 2001, becoming the fastest expansion team in the majors to win a championship, doing it in only the fourth season since their expansion in 1998.

In 2001, the team was led by two of the most dominant pitchers in all of baseball: Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling.

By this time Colangelo and the other partners were embroiled in a dispute over the financial health and direction of the Diamondbacks ( and notably including over $ 150 million in deferred compensation to many players who were key members of the 2001 World Series winning team and others ).

Lara scored 688 runs ( 42 % of team output, a record for a series of three or more Tests, and the second highest aggregate runs in history for a three-Test series ) in the 2001 – 02 tour of Sri Lanka.

The first female Blue Angel flight surgeon was LT Tamara Schnurr, as a member of the 2001 team.

The second study lasted 411 days in 2000 – 2001, in Ahmedabad, India, under the direction of a 21 member team of medical doctors and scientists led by doctors Sudhir Shah and K. K. Shah, a past President of the Indian Medical Association and current Chairman of the Jainist Doctors ' Federation ( the latter group aims to " Promote scientific research and medical education based on principles of Jainism ").

* Fulham were the last team to have standing accommodation in the Premier League, as Craven Cottage included terraces in the 2001 – 02 season – eight years after the Taylor Report outlawed terraces at this level.

In 2001, Detroit, the league's second-best team in the regular season, were upset in the playoffs by the Los Angeles Kings.

Sven-Göran Eriksson took charge of the team between 2001 and 2006 and was the first non-English manager of England.

The other two wins were against eventual runners-up Sydney ( in a match where Matthew Lloyd flaunted with the Sydney defence, kicking eight goals ( six of which came in the opening quarter ) and being awarded best-on-ground in a game Essendon rightfully deserved to win ) and against the team that denied them the 2001 Premiership, the Brisbane Lions ( who also were in a rebuilding phrase ).

And in 2001 a team lead by Michel Brunet discovered the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis which was dated as, and which Brunet argued was a bipedal, and therefore a hominin.

Between May 2001 and August 2005, the team has studied the excitation function of the 3n, 4n, and 5n evaporation channels leading to < sup > 269 </ sup > Hs, < sup > 270 </ sup > Hs, and < sup > 271 </ sup > Hs .< ref >" Decay properties of < sup > 269 </ sup > Hs and evidence for the new nuclide < sup > 270 </ sup > Hs ", Turler et al., GSI Annual Report 2001.

The 2000 and 2001 Colts teams were considerably less successful compared to the 1999 team and pressure began to mount on team administration and the coaching staff following a 6 – 10 season in 2001.

For example, a positive relationship between the team-level traits of agreeableness and conscientiousness and the team performance has been shown to exist ( Van Vianen & De Dreu, 2001 ).

Joyce Reynolds served as part of the editorial team of the Request For Comments series from 1987 to 2006, and also performed the IANA function with Jon Postel until this was transferred to ICANN, and worked with ICANN in this role until 2001, while remaining an employee of ISI.

After the loss of Preki to the Miami Fusion, the team struggled to defend their championship in 2001, making the playoffs as the 8th seed with a record of 11 – 13 – 3.

Following the tension of Game Six, the Cardinals pitching and defense came undone in Game 7 and their offense was shut down by Saberhagen leading to the lowest batting average to date (. 188 by the Cardinals, later broken by 2001 Yankees ) and fewest runs ( 13 for the Cardinals, still stands ) of any team in a 7 game series, and the Royals won 11 – 0 to clinch the franchise's only World Series title.

Alt-rock band The Cooper Temple Clause formed a kabbadi team in 2001 and were, at one stage, ranked seventh in the British domestic standings.

The national team has been less successful in such limited-overs matches at the ground, including a five year stint between 1996 and 2001, when they failed to win any matches.

In 2001, a research team at Stanford invented a new technique which came to be called " Prepolarized MRI " or PMRI.

Using Nevado Mismi, which in 2001 was labeled by the National Geographic Society as the Amazon's source, these scientists made new calculations of the Amazon's length.

However, other geographers have had access to the same data since 2001, and a consensus has yet to emerge to support the claims of these Brazilian scientists.

In 2001, Indian scientists and politicians debated and critiqued a proposal to use state money to fund research into astrology, resulting in permission for Indian universities to offer courses in Vedic astrology.

In a lecture in 2001, Stephen Hawking stated " The reason most scientists don't believe in astrology is because it is not consistent with our theories that have been tested by experiment.

A team of scientists, including Americans, Russians, and Japanese, traveled to this remote glacier in the summer of 2001 to assess the feasibility of studying the glacier and extracting ice cores at the site.

On July 2, 2012, scientists of the CDF and DØ collider experiment teams at Fermilab announced the findings from the analysis of around 500 trillion collisions produced from the Tevatron collider since 2001, and found that the existence of the suspected Higgs boson was highly likely with only a 1-in-550 chance that the signs were due to a statistical fluctuation.

On July 2, 2012, two days before a scheduled announcement at the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ), scientists at the Tevatron collider from the CDF and DØ collaborations announced their findings from the analysis of around 500 trillion collisions produced since 2001: They found that the existence of the Higgs boson was likely with a mass in the region of 115 to 135 GeV.

The Lost River sucker and shortnose sucker were listed on the Federal Endangered Species List in 1988, and when drought struck in 2001, a panel of scientists stated that further diversion of water for agriculture would be detrimental to these species, which reside in the Upper Klamath Lake, as well as to the protected Coho salmon which spawn in the Klamath River.

In November 2001 Canada and the U. S. implemented the new wind chill index, Developed by scientists and medical experts of both countries, it is determined by iterating a model of skin temperature under various wind speeds and temperatures.

The FAS Building Technologies Project was initiated in 2001 to focus the efforts of scientists and engineers who specialize in building materials on a range of issues such as structural engineering, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, and architectural design to create homes that are safe, affordable, and attractive to builders and owners in the U. S. and abroad.

The petition called for all scientists to pledge that from September 2001 they would discontinue submission of papers to journals which did not make the full-text of their papers available to all, free and unfettered, either immediately or after a delay of several months.

In 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, scientists using federal grants spread fertilizer made from human and industrial wastes on yards in poor, black neighborhoods to test whether it might protect children from lead poisoning in the soil.

From 2001 to 2003, scientists analyzed hairs and casts of a foot print found by three British men — Adam Davies, Andrew Sanderson and Keith Townley — while traveling in Kerinci.

In 2001, WSU professor M. Grant Norton and University of Idaho physics professor David McIlroy were the first scientists to create nanosprings.

" ad of 2001, Tango brought back their famous " You Know When You've Been Tango'd " slogan in a brand new set of adverts, which would feature scientists performing unnecessary stunts.

In 2001 two research icebreakers, the German Polarstern and the American Healy, with several groups of scientists, cruised to the Gakkel Ridge to explore it and collect petrological samples.

In 2001, Paul Allen gathered a group of scientists, including James Watson and Steven Pinker, to discuss the future of neuroscience and what could be done to enhance neuroscience research ( Jones 2009 ).

The first suggestion along these lines came from author Nick Cook, who in his " The Hunt for Zero Point " ( 2001 ) raised the possibility that Kammler was brought to the United States along with other German scientists as part of Operation Paperclip as a result of his supposed involvement in secret German projects.

Independent scientists Edwin May and James Spottiswoode conducted an analysis of the data around the 11 September 2001 events and concluded there was no statistically significant change in the randomness of the GCP data during the attacks and the apparent significant deviation reported by Nelson and Radin existed only in their chosen time window.

A team of scientists develop a laser satellite-controlling computer system called MAAX ( Meteoroid and Asteroid Exploder ) to destroy the meteoroid ; however, MAAX develops a personality of its own ( in an obvious parody of the sentient computer HAL from the film and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ) and refuses to save the planet unless Earth's scientists can solve seven science riddles.

The role of biologists in Nazi atrocities: lessons for today's scientists " in EMBO Reports v. 2 # 10 ( 2001 ), 871 – 875.

It was discovered in 2001 by a team of Brazilian scientists.

In 2001, a group of scientists retraced the steps of the 1899 Harriman Expedition.