Editing 1942 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* March 12 – [[William Henry Bragg|Sir William Henry Bragg]], English recipient of a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (born [[1862 in science|1862]])
* March 14 – [[Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde]], German [[botanist]] (born [[1873 in science|1873]])
* May 19 – [[Joseph Larmor]], Irish physicist (born [[1857 in science|1857]])
* August 6 – [[Valdemar Poulsen]], Danish audio engineer (born [[1869 in science|1869]])
* August 12 – [[Sabina Spielrein]], [[Russians|Russian]] [[psychoanalyst]], in Zmievskaya Balka massacre<ref>{{cite web|title=Rostov Jewish Community Calls For Survivors, Children to Remember Zmievskaya Balka|url=http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2029053/Rostov-Jewish-Community-Calls-For-Survivors-Children-to-Remember-Zmievskaya-Balka.html|publisher=[[Chabad Lubavitch]]|date=2010-05-31|accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> (born [[1885 in science|1885]])
* September 22 – [[Isaak Bacharach]], German [[mathematician]] (born [[1854 in science|1854]])
* October 5 – [[Dorothea Klumpke]], [[Americans|American]] [[astronomer]] (born [[1861 in science|1861]])
* October 27 –  [[Alfred Baker (academic)|Alfred Baker]], [[Canadians|Canadian]] mathematician (born [[1848 in science|1848]])
* November 3 – [[Ernest Gibbins]], English [[entomologist]], speared by [[Uganda]]n tribesmen amongst whom he was working (born [[1900 in science|1900]]).
* November 5 – [[Alexis Carrel]], [[French people|French]] surgeon, [[biologist]] and winner of a [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (born [[1873 in science|1873]])
* November 13 – [[Robert Remak (mathematician)|Robert Remak]], German mathematician, in [[Auschwitz]] (born [[1888 in science|1888]])
* December 21 – [[Franz Boas]], German American [[anthropologist]] (born [[1858 in science|1858]])
* [[Vernon Orlando Bailey]], [[Americans|American]] [[naturalist]] (born [[1864 in science|1864]])
* [[Amelia Chopitea Villa]], Bolivia's first female physician (born [[1900 in science|1900]])