Editing 1918 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 6 – [[Georg Cantor]] (born [[1845 in science|1845]]), German [[mathematician]].
* January 26 – [[Ewald Hering]] (born [[1834 in science|1834]]), German [[physiologist]].
* January 31 – [[Ivan Puluj]] (born [[1845 in science|1845]]), Austrian-born Ukrainian [[physicist]].
* April 20 – [[Karl Ferdinand Braun]] (born [[1850 in science|1850]]), German physicist, Nobel laureate.
* May 1 – [[G. K. Gilbert]] (born [[1843 in science|1843]]), American [[geologist]].
* May 31 – [[Alexander Mitscherlich (chemist)|Alexander Mitscherlich]] (born [[1836 in science|1836]]), German [[chemist]].
* June 13 – [[Samuel Jean de Pozzi]] (born [[1846 in science|1846]]), French [[gynaecologist]].
* June 27 – [[George Mary Searle]] (born [[1839 in science|1839]]), American [[astronomer]].
* June 29 – [[Alfred Senier]] (born [[1853 in science|1853]]), Irish [[chemist]].
* September 7 – [[Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow]] (born [[1832 in science|1832]]), Norwegian [[mathematician]].
* August 22 – [[Korbinian Brodmann]] (born [[1868 in science|1868]]), German [[neurologist]].
* October 28 – [[Ulisse Dini]] (born [[1845 in science|1845]]), Italian mathematician.
* November 3 – [[Aleksandr Lyapunov]] (born [[1857 in science|1857]]), Russian mathematician and physicist.
* November 29 – [[Thomas Allinson]] (born [[1858 in science|1858]]), English [[physician]] and dietetic reformer.
* December 26 – [[William Hampton Patton]] (born [[1853 in science|1853]]), American entomologist.
* December 27 – [[Birt Acres]] (born [[1854 in science|1854]]), American-born English pioneer of [[cinematography]].