Editing 1914 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 24 – Sir [[David Gill (astronomer)|David Gill]] (born [[1843 in science|1843]]), Scottish [[astronomer]].
* March 19 – [[Giuseppe Mercalli]] (born [[1850 in science|1850]]), Italian [[volcanologist]].
* March 30 – [[John Henry Poynting]] (born [[1852 in science|1852]]), English physicist, discovered the [[Poynting–Robertson effect]] and developed the [[Poynting vector]].
* April 16 – [[George William Hill]] (born [[1838 in science|1838]]), American astronomer.
* April 26 – [[Eduard Suess]] (born [[1831 in science|1831]]), German [[geologist]] and [[ecologist]].
* May 15 – [[Ida Freund]] (born [[1863 in science|1863]]), Austrian-born British chemist and educator.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Marelene F. Rayner-Canham|author2=Geoffrey Rayner-Canham|title=Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_NJ7AubQIcC&pg=PA61|year=1998|publisher=Chemical Heritage Foundation|isbn=978-0-941901-27-7|pages=61}}</ref>
* May 27 – [[Joseph Swan]] (born [[1828 in science|1828]]), English physicist.<ref>{{cite book|author=Institution of Electrical Engineers|title=Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oshNdpQ3MrIC|year=1915|publisher=Institution of Electrical Engineers|page=722}}</ref>
* September 13 – [[Robert Hope-Jones]] (born [[1859 in science|1859]]), English-born inventor of the theatre organ (suicide).<ref>{{cite news|title=Death of Robert Hope-Jones|date=19 September 1914|work=Music Trade Review}}</ref>
* November 5 – [[August Weismann]] (born [[1834 in science|1834]]), German [[Evolutionary biology|evolutionary biologist]].<ref>{{cite book|title=United States Congressional Serial Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VuFGAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA19-PA28|year=1915|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=19}}</ref>
* November 10 – [[Lydia Shackleton]] (born [[1828 in science|1828]]), Irish botanical artist.
* November 28 – [[Johann Wilhelm Hittorf]] (born [[1824 in science|1824]]), German physicist.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chemical Society (Great Britain)|title=Journal of the Chemical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FO44AAAAMAAJ|year=1915|publisher=The Society|page=582}}</ref>
* December 24 – [[John Muir]] (born [[1838 in science|1838]]), Scottish American geologist and ecologist, founder of the [[Sierra Club]].
* December 29 – [[Johannes Ludwig Janson]] (born [[1849 in science|1849]]), German veterinary scientist.<ref>{{cite journal| pmid=21073248 | volume=8 | title=Johannes Ludwig Janson, professor of veterinary medicine in Tokyo in 1880-1902 - contribution to German-Japanese medical relations, part IV | year=2010 | journal=Acta Med Hist Adriat | pages=109–18 | last = Kast | first = A.| issue=1 }}</ref>