Editing 1905 in science (section)

==Births==
* February 1 – [[Emilio Segrè]] (died [[1989 in science|1989]]), Italian-born [[physicist]], Nobel laureate
* February 17 – [[Rózsa Péter]] (died [[1977 in science|1977]]), Hungarian [[mathematician]], "founding mother of [[recursive function theory]]"
* February 23 – [[Derrick Henry Lehmer]] (died [[1991 in science|1991]]), American [[mathematician]]
* March 18 – [[Thomas Townsend Brown]] (died [[1985 in science|1985]]), American inventor
* March 26 – [[Viktor Frankl]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), Austrian [[psychotherapist]]
* March 27 – [[Elsie MacGill]] (died [[1980 in science|1980]]), Canadian [[aeronautics|aeronautical]] [[engineer]], "Queen of the Hurricanes"
* April 13 – [[Bruno Rossi]] (died [[1993 in science|1993]]), Italian physicist and [[astronomer]]
* April 18 – [[George H. Hitchings]] (died [[1998 in science|1998]]), American scientist, Nobel laureate in Medicine
* April 20 – [[Albrecht Unsöld]] (died [[1995 in science|1995]]), German astronomer
* July 7 – [[Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin]] (died [[1972 in science|1972]]), French mathematician
* August 1 – [[Helen Sawyer Hogg]] (died [[1993 in science|1993]]), American-born astronomer
* August 11 – [[Erwin Chargaff]] (died [[2002 in science|2002]]), Austro-Hungarian-born [[biochemist]]
* August 16 – [[Marian Rejewski]] (died [[1980 in science|1980]]), Polish mathematician and [[cryptology|cryptologist]]
* August 31 – [[Robert Bacher]] (died [[2004 in science|2004]]), American [[nuclear physics|nuclear physicist]]
* September 3 – [[Carl David Anderson]] (died [[1991 in science|1991]]), American physicist, Nobel laureate
* September 17 – [[Hans Freudenthal]] (died [[1990 in science|1990]]), American mathematician
* September 22 – [[Eugen Sänger]] (died [[1964 in science|1964]]), Austrian-born aerospace engineer
* September 24 – [[Severo Ochoa]] (died [[1993 in science|1993]]), Spanish biochemist, Nobel laureate
* September 30 – [[Nevill Francis Mott]] (died [[1996 in science|1996]]), English physicist, Nobel laureate
* October 15 – [[C. P. Snow]] (died [[1980 in science|1980]]), English physicist and novelist
* October 22
** [[Karl Guthe Jansky]] (died [[1950 in science|1950]]), American physicist
** [[Felix Bloch]] (died [[1983 in science|1983]]), Swiss [[physicist]], Nobel laureate
* October 31 – [[Harry Harlow]] (died [[1981 in science|1981]]), American [[psychologist]]
* November 10 – [[Louis Harold Gray]] (died [[1965 in science|1965]]), English physicist, inventor of the field of [[radiobiology]]
* December 7 – [[Gerard Kuiper]] (died [[1973 in science|1973]]), Dutch-born astronomer
* December 16 – [[Piet Hein (scientist)|Piet Hein]] (died [[1996 in science|1996]]), Danish mathematician
* December 22 – [[Tommy Flowers]] (died [[1998 in science|1998]]), English computer engineer