Editing 1918 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 23 – [[Gertrude B. Elion]] (died [[1999 in science|1999]]), American [[pharmacologist]], [[Nobel laureate]].
* January 27 – [[Antonín Mrkos]] (died [[1996 in science|1996]]), Czech [[astronomer]].
* March 13  – [[Marjorie Blamey]] (died [[2019 in science|2019]]), English botanical illustrator.
* March 16 – [[Frederick Reines]] (died [[1998 in science|1998]]), American [[physicist]], Nobel laureate.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilford |first1=John Noble |title=Frederick Reines Dies at 80; Nobelist Discovered Neutrino |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/28/us/frederick-reines-dies-at-80-nobelist-discovered-neutrino.html |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 August 1998 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* April 4 – [[Joseph Ashbrook]] (died [[1980 in science|1980]]), American astronomer.
* April 25 – [[Gérard de Vaucouleurs]] (died [[1995 in science|1995]]), French astronomer.
* May 11 – [[Richard Feynman]] (died [[1988 in science|1988]]), American physicist, Nobel laureate.
* May 20 – [[Alexandra Illmer Forsythe]] (died [[1980 in science|1980]]), American computer scientist
* June 6 – [[Edwin G. Krebs]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), American [[biochemist]], Nobel laureate.
* July 15
** [[Bertram Brockhouse]] (died [[2003 in science|2003]]), Canadian physicist.
** [[Brenda Milner]], English-born neuropsychologist.
* July 16 – [[Samuel Victor Perry]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), English biochemist, pioneer in the field of muscle biochemistry.
* August 3 – [[Cheng Kaijia]] (died [[2018 in science|2018]]), Chinese [[nuclear physicist]].
* August 13 – [[Frederick Sanger]] (died [[2013 in science|2013]]), English [[molecular biologist]], double Nobel laureate.
* August 26 – [[Katherine Johnson]] (died [[2020 in science|2020]]), African American mathematician and space physicist.
* August 29 – [[John Herivel]] (died [[2011 in science|2011]]), British [[cryptanalyst]] and science historian.
* September 8 – [[Derek Barton]] (died 1998), English-born [[organic chemist]], Nobel laureate. 
* September 27 – [[Martin Ryle]] (died [[1984 in science|1984]]), English [[radio astronomer]].
* October 4 – [[Adrian Kantrowitz]] (died [[2008 in science|2008]]), American [[cardiac surgeon]].
* November 10 – [[Ernst Otto Fischer]] (died [[2007 in science|2007]]), German [[chemist]], Nobel laureate.
* November 19 – [[Hendrik C. van de Hulst]] (died [[2000 in science|2000]]), Dutch astronomer.
* December 25 – [[Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova]] (died [[2001 in science|2001]]), Russian astronomer.
* [[Eleanor C. Pressly]] (died [[2003 in science|2003]]), American mathematician and aeronautical engineer.