Editing 1864 in science (section)

==Births==
* January ''(prob. date)'' – [[George Washington Carver]] (died [[1943 in science|1943]]), [[African American]] agricultural [[botanist]].
* January 13 – [[Wilhelm Wien]] (died [[1928 in science|1928]]), [[Germans|German]] [[physicist]].
* March 12 – [[W. H. R. Rivers]] (died [[1922 in science|1922]]), [[English people|English]] [[psychiatrist]].
* March 15 – [[Carl Edvard Johansson]] (died [[1943 in science|1943]]), [[Swedes|Swedish]] [[metrologist]].
* April 21 – [[Max Weber]] (died [[1920 in science|1920]]), German [[sociology|sociologist]].
* June 14 – [[Alois Alzheimer]] (died [[1915 in science|1915]]), German [[neuroscientist]].
* June 25 – [[Walther Nernst]] (died [[1941 in science|1941]]), German [[chemist]].
* June 22 – [[Hermann Minkowski]] (died [[1909 in science|1909]]), Lithuanian-German [[mathematician]].
* September 8 (O.S. August 27) – [[Jakob Johann von Uexküll]] (died [[1944 in science|1944]]), Baltic German pioneer of [[biosemiotics]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Carlo|last=Brentari|title=Jakob von Uexküll: The Discovery of the Umwelt between Biosemiotics and Theoretical Biology|publisher=Springer|year=2015}}</ref>
* December 1 – [[Carsten Borchgrevink]] (died [[1934 in science|1934]]), [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] [[Antarctic]] explorer.