Editing 1981 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 5
** [[Frederick Osborn]] (b. [[1889 in science|1889]]), [[Americans|American]] [[philanthropist]] and [[eugenicist]].
** [[Harold Urey]] (b. [[1893 in science|1893]]), American winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Cohen | first1 = K. P. | last2 = Runcorn | first2 = S. K. | author-link2 = Keith Runcorn| last3 = Suess | first3 = H. E. | last4 = Thode | first4 = H. G. | author-link4 = Harry Thode| title = Harold Clayton Urey 29 April 1893-5 January 1981 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1983.0022 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 29 | pages = 622–659 | year = 1983 | jstor = 769815| doi-access = free }}</ref> 
* February 26 – [[Jennie Smillie Robertson]] (b. [[1878 in science|1878]]), [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[gynecological]] [[surgeon]].
* March 8 – [[Joseph Henry Woodger]], British theoretical biologist (b. [[1894 in science|1894]])<ref>{{cite journal| last1=Popper | first1=Karl | year=1981 | title=Obituary: Joseph Henry Woodger | journal=[[British Journal for the Philosophy of Science]] | volume=32 | issue=3 | pages=328–330 | doi=10.1093/bjps/32.3.328 }}</ref>
* March 9 – [[Max Delbrück]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), [[Germans|German]] [[biologist]].<ref>{{Cite journal | author = William Hayes | author-link = William Hayes (geneticist)| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1982.0003 | title = Max Ludwig Henning Delbruck. 4 September 1906-10 March 1981 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London|volume = 28 | pages = 58–90| year = 1982 | jstor = 769892 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
* April 3 – [[Leo Kanner]] (b. [[1894 in science|1894]]), [[Austrian Americans|Austrian American]] clinical [[Child and adolescent psychiatry|child psychiatrist]].
* May 11 – [[Odd Hassel]], Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1897 in science|1897]])<ref>{{Citation|last=Pedersen|first=Bjørn|title=Odd Hassel|date=2019-09-24|url=http://snl.no/Odd_Hassel|work=Store norske leksikon|language=no|access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref>
* July 4 - [[Niels Erik Nørlund]] (b. [[1885 in science|1885]]), [[Denmark|Danish]] [[mathematician]].
* July 27 – [[Elizabeth Rona]] (b. [[1890 in science|1890]]), [[Hungarian American]] [[nuclear chemist]].
* July 31 – [[Ernest Melville DuPorte]] (b. [[1891 in science|1891]]), [[Black Canadians|Black Canadian]] [[Insect morphology|insect morphologist]].
* September 8 – [[Hideki Yukawa]], Japanese physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1907 in science|1907]])<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Kemmer | first1 = N. | author-link = Nicholas Kemmer| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1983.0023 | title = Hideki Yukawa. 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 29 | pages = 660–676| year = 1983 | jstor = 769816| doi-access = free }}</ref>
* September 9 – [[Jacques Lacan]] (b. [[1901 in science|1901]]), French [[psychoanalyst]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lacan/|title=Jacques Lacan|encyclopedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|publisher=Stanford University|first=Adrian|last=Johnston|year=2018}}</ref>
* November 15 – [[Walter Heitler]] (b. [[1904 in science|1904]]), German physicist<br>[[Fellow of the Royal Society]]<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Mott | first1 = N. | author-link = Nevill Francis Mott| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1982.0007 | title = Walter Heinrich Heitler. 2 January 1904 – 15 November 1981 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 28 | pages = 140–151| year = 1982 | jstor = 769896| doi-access = free }}</ref>
* November 17 
** [[Wilhelm Pelikan]] (b. [[1893 in science|1893]]), Austrian chemist.<ref>[https://steinerbooks.presswarehouse.com/browse/author/523454f0-d006-4472-8f4d-27fd69d3d317/Wilhelm-Pelikan?page=1 Wilhelm Pelikan]</ref>
** [[Sibyl M. Rock]] (b. [[1909 in science|1909]]), American mathematician.
* November 22 – [[Hans Adolf Krebs|Hans Krebs]] (b. [[1900 in science|1900]]), German [[medical doctor]] and [[biochemist]]; discoverer of the [[citric acid cycle]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kornberg|first1=H.|last2=Williamson|first2=D. H.|title=Hans Adolf Krebs. 25 August 1900 – 22 November 1981|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|year=1984|volume=30|pages=350–385|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1984.0013|pmid=11616005|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* December 6 – [[Harry Harlow]] (b. [[1905 in science|1905]]), American [[psychologist]].