Editing 1906 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 6 – [[G. Ledyard Stebbins]] (died [[2000 in science|2000]]), American [[botany|botanist]] and [[geneticist]].
* January 10 – [[Grigore Moisil]] (died [[1973 in science|1973]]), Romanian [[mathematician]].
* January 11 – [[Albert Hofmann]] (died [[2008 in science|2008]]), Swiss [[chemist]].
* February 3 
** [[George Adamson]] (died [[1989 in science|1989]]), Indian-born [[wildlife conservation]]ist.
** [[Ilona Banga]], Hungarian biochemist (died [[1998 in science|1998]])
* February 4 – [[Clyde Tombaugh]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), American [[astronomer]].
* February 17 – [[Elizabeth M. Ramsey]] (died [[1993 in science|1993]]), American research [[physician]].
* February 18 – [[Hans Asperger]] (died [[1980 in science|1980]]), Austrian [[pediatrician]].
* April 28 – [[Kurt Gödel]] (died [[1978 in science|1978]]), Austrian [[mathematician]].
* June 13 – [[Bruno de Finetti]] (died [[1985 in science|1985]]), Italian [[statistician]].
* June 15 – [[Gordon Welchman]] (died 1985), English-born mathematician and [[cryptanalyst]].
* June 18 – [[Orvan Hess]] (died [[2002 in science|2002]]), American [[obstetrician]].
* June 23 – [[Derek Jackson]] (died [[1982 in science|1982]]), Swiss-born British [[spectroscopist]] and steeplechase rider (also his twin brother Vivian).
* June 28 – [[Maria Goeppert Mayer|Maria Göppert]] (died [[1972 in science|1972]]), German-born theoretical physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]. 
* July 2 – [[Hans Bethe]] (died [[2005 in science|2005]]), German-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
* August 19 – [[Philo Farnsworth]] (died [[1971 in science|1971]]), American television pioneer.
* September 1 – [[Karl August Folkers]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), American biochemist.
* September 4 – [[Max Delbrück]] (died [[1981 in science|1981]]), German-born [[biologist]].
* September 30 – [[Vera Faddeeva]] (died [[1983 in science|1983]]), Soviet mathematician.
* October 2 – [[Willy Ley]] (died [[1969 in science|1969]]), German-born scientific populariser.
* November 3 – [[Carl Benjamin Boyer]] (died [[1976 in science|1976]]), American historian of mathematics.
* November 5 – [[Fred Lawrence Whipple]] (died [[2004 in science|2004]]), American [[astronomer]], coins the term "dirty snowball" to explain the nature of [[comet]]s.
* November 18 – [[George Wald]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), American scientist.
* December 9 – [[Grace Hopper]] (died [[1992 in science|1992]]), American [[computer scientist]].
* December 25 – [[Ernst Ruska]] (died [[1988 in science|1988]]), German physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics.