Editing 1937 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 14 – [[Leo Kadanoff]], American physicist (died [[2015 in science|2015]])
* January 26 – [[Igor Aleksander]], Croatian computer scientist.
* February 18 – [[Chen Chuangtian]] (died [[2018 in science|2018]]), [[Chinese people|Chinese]] [[materials scientist]].
* March 16 – [[Amos Tversky]] (died [[1996 in science|1996]]), [[Jewish American]] [[Cognitive psychology|cognitive]] and [[Mathematical psychology|mathematical psychologist]], recipient of the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]].
* April 17 – [[Don Buchla]] (died [[2016 in science|2016]]), [[Americans|American]] electronic engineer, pioneer of sound [[synthesizer]]s.
* May 9 – [[Alison Jolly]] (died [[2014 in science|2014]]), American [[primatologist]].
* May 13 – [[Trevor Baylis]] (died [[2018 in science|2018]]), [[English people|English]] inventor.
* June 8 – [[Bruce McCandless II]] (died [[2017 in science|2017]]), American [[astronaut]].
* June 9  – [[Harald Rosenthal]], German biologist
* June 11 – [[David Mumford]], American [[mathematician]].
* June 21 – [[Averil Mansfield]], English [[vascular surgeon]].
* June 23 – [[Nicholas Shackleton]] (died [[2006 in science|2006]]), English Quaternary geologist and paleoclimatologist, recipient of the [[Vetlesen Prize]].
* June 26 – [[Robert Coleman Richardson]] (died [[2013 in science|2013]]), American [[Experimental physics|experimental physicist]], recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
* July 1 – [[Lydia Makhubu]], Swazi chemist.
* July 19 – [[Bibb Latané]], American [[social psychologist]].
* July 26 – [[Ernest Vinberg]] (died [[2020 in science|2020]]), Russian mathematician.
* August 2 – [[Coenraad Bron]], Dutch computer scientist (d. [[2006]])
* September 8 – [[Edna Adan Ismail]], [[Somalis|Somali]] pioneer of [[pediatrics]].
* December 26 – [[John Horton Conway]], English-born mathematician (d. [[2020 in science|2020]])