Editing 1915 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 11 – [[Lucille Farrier Stickel]] (died [[2007 in science|2007]]), American wildlife toxicologist.
* February 26 – [[Wang Daheng]] (died [[2011 in science|2011]]), Chinese optical physicist.
* February 28 – [[Peter Medawar]] (died [[1987 in science|1987]]), Brazilian-born British biologist, co-recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] ([[1960 in science|1960]]) for his work in [[immunology]].
* March 15 – [[Laurent Schwartz]] (died [[2002 in science|2002]]), French [[mathematician]].
* March 16 – [[Kunihiko Kodaira]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), Japanese mathematician.
* May 30 – [[Henry Aaron Hill]] (died [[1979 in science|1979]]), American fluorocarbon chemist and first [[African American]] president of the [[American Chemical Society]].
* June 15
** [[Thomas Huckle Weller]] (died [[2008 in science|2008]]), American [[virologist]] and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ([[1954 in science|1954]]) for his work on [[polio]].
** [[Xu Ruiyun]] (suicide [[1969 in science|1969]]), Chinese mathematician.
* June 19 – [[Katherine Sanford]] (died [[2005 in science|2005]]), American cell biologist.
* June 24 – [[Fred Hoyle]] (died [[2001 in science|2001]]), English [[astronomer]] and [[science fiction]] writer.
* July 28 – [[Charles Hard Townes]] (died [[2015 in science|2015]]), American [[physicist]] and co-recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] ([[1964 in science|1964]]) for developing the [[maser]].
* October 1 – [[Jerome Bruner]] (died [[2016 in science|2016]]), American [[Developmental psychology|developmental]] and [[educational psychologist]].
* October 26 – [[Lu Jiaxi (chemist)|Lu Jiaxi]] (died [[2001 in science|2001]]), Chinese physical chemist.
* November 18 – [[Tang Aoqing]] (died [[2008 in science|2008]]), Chinese quantum chemist.
* November 30 – [[Henry Taube]] (died 2005), Canadian-born recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] ([[1983 in science|1983]]).
* December 5 – [[Ren Xinmin]] (died [[2017 in science|2017]]), Chinese rocket scientist.
* December 22 – [[A. E. Wilder-Smith]] (died [[1995 in science|1995]]), English-born [[organic chemist]].