Editing 1914 in science (section)

==Births==
* February 5 – [[Alan Lloyd Hodgkin|Alan Hodgkin]] (died [[1998 in science|1998]]), English [[physiologist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (1963).<ref>{{cite book|author=Neil Schlager|title=Science and Its Times: 1950-present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1o5FAAAAYAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-3939-6|page=153}}</ref>
* February 22 – [[Renato Dulbecco]] (died [[2012 in science|2012]]), Italian-born [[virologist]], winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975).
* March 5 – [[He Zehui]] (died [[2011 in science|2011]]), Chinese nuclear physicist.
* March 8 – [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]] (died [[1987 in science|1987]]), [[Russian Empire|Russian]] [[astrophysicist]].
* March 25 – [[Norman Borlaug]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), American [[agronomist]], [[humanitarian]] and [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel laureate]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peggy Saari|author2=Stephen Allison|author3=Marie C. Ellavich|title=Scientists: A-F|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtkHAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=U-X-L|isbn=978-0-7876-0960-3|page=105}}</ref>
* April 7 – [[Heinz Billing]], German physicist and computer scientist (died [[2017 in science|2017]])
* May 19 – [[Max Perutz]] (died [[2002 in science|2002]]), Austrian-born [[biologist]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Manchester Memoirs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gx8oAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=The Society|page=113}}</ref>
* June 3 – [[Ignacio Ponseti]] (died 2009), [[Menorca]]n-born pediatric orthopedist.
* June 4 – [[Alec Skempton]] (died [[2001 in science|2001]]), English pioneer of [[soil science]] and engineering historian.
* July 15 – [[Gavin Maxwell]] (died [[1969 in science|1969]]), Scottish naturalist.<ref>{{cite book|author=Harold Oxbury|title=Great Britons: Twentieth-century Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9coZAAAAYAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-211599-7|page=239}}</ref>
* July 24 – [[Frances Oldham Kelsey]] (died [[2015 in science|2015]]), Canadian pharmacologist.
* August 13 – [[Grace Bates]] (died [[1996 in science|1996]]), American mathematician.
* September 5 – [[Nicanor Parra]] (died [[2018 in science|2018]]), Chilean poet and physicist.
* October 2 – [[Jack Parsons (rocket engineer)|Jack Parsons]] (died [[1952 in science|1952]]), American rocket engineer and occultist.
* October 6 – [[Thor Heyerdahl]] (died 2002), [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] [[ethnographer]] and explorer, leader of the ''[[Kon-Tiki]]'' expedition.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oceans and Atmosphere|title=International Conference on Ocean Pollution: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HiUQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA42|year=1972|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=42}}</ref>
* October 14 – [[Raymond Davis Jr.]] (died [[2006 in science|2006]]), American [[chemist]] and [[physicist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (2002)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robyn V. Young|author2=Suzanne Sessine|title=World of Chemistry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=imU6AQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-3650-0|page=295}}</ref>
* October 21 – [[Martin Gardner]] (died [[2010 in science|2010]]), American writer on recreational [[mathematics]].
* October 28
** [[Jonas Salk]] (died [[1995 in science|1995]]), American medical researcher.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Oren Harman|author2=Michael R. Dietrich|title=Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9A1uDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA83|date=20 July 2018|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-56990-1|pages=83}}</ref>
** [[Richard Laurence Millington Synge]] (died [[1994 in science|1994]]), English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate.<ref>{{cite book|author1=James K. Laylin|title=Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 1901-1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEy67gEvIuMC&pg=PA356|date=30 October 1993|publisher=Chemical Heritage Foundation|isbn=978-0-8412-2690-6|pages=356}}</ref>
* December 15 – [[Anatole Abragam]], French physicist (died [[2011 in science|2011]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Science Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AqkEAAAAIAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research|page=67}}</ref>
* December 20 – [[Mary Helen Wright Greuter]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), American historian of astronomy.
* December 21 – [[Frank Fenner]] (died [[2010 in science|2010]]), Australian virologist and microbiologist.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Australian Journal of Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_I7yAAAAMAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Australian National Research Council|page=254}}</ref>
* December 31 – [[Mary Logan Reddick]] (died [[1966 in science|1966]]), African American neuroembryologist.