Editing 1942 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 8 – [[Stephen Hawking]], [[English people|English]] [[cosmologist]] and best-selling author of ''[[A Brief History of Time]]'' (died [[2018 in science|2018]])
* January 12 – [[Michel Mayor]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[astronomer]], recipient of a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]
* January 27 – [[Tasuku Honjo]], Japanese immunologist, recipient of a [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* March 27 – [[John Sulston]], English molecular biologist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2018)
* May 24 – [[Fraser Stoddart]], Scottish-born chemist, recipient of a [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (died [[2024 in science|2024]])
* June 8 – [[Jacques Dubochet]], Swiss [[biophysicist]], recipient of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* August 24 – [[Karen Uhlenbeck]], [[Americans|American]] mathematician
* October 20 – [[Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard]], German developmental geneticist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* November 14 – [[Hanna von Hoerner]], German [[astrophysicist]] (died [[2014 in science|2014]])
* November 22 – [[Guion Bluford]], African American aerospace engineer and astronaut
* November 30 – [[André Brahic]], [[French people|French]] astrophysicist (died [[2016 in science|2016]])
* December 1 – [[John Clauser]], American quantum physicist, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/press-release/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022|date=2022-10-04|work=[[Nobel Prize]]|publisher=[[The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]]|access-date=2022-10-06}}</ref>