Editing 1950 in science (section)

==Births==
* March 2 – [[James W. Pennebaker]], [[Americans|American]] [[social psychologist]].
* March 5 – [[Henry Marsh (neurosurgeon)|Henry Marsh]], [[English people|English]] [[neurosurgeon]].
* March 18 – [[Linda Partridge]], English bio[[gerontologist]].
* May 16 – [[Georg Bednorz]], [[Germans|German]] physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] 1987.
* June 8 – [[Stanley J. Korsmeyer]] (died [[2005 in science|2005]]), American [[cell biologist]].
* July 4 – [[Steven Sasson]], American [[electrical engineer]].
* October 21 – [[Ronald McNair]] (died on mission [[1986 in science|1986]]), [[African American]] physicist and [[astronaut]].
* November 1 – [[Robert B. Laughlin]], American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1998.
* November 3 – [[James Rothman]], American [[cell biologist]], [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] 2013.
* November 22 – [[Eva-Maria Neher]], née Ruhr, German [[biochemist]].
* December 13 – [[Julia Slingo]], English [[meteorologist]].
* December 27 – [[Joe Armstrong (programmer)|Joe Armstrong]] (died [[2019 in science|2019]]), English computer scientist.
* December 28 – [[Frank Kelly (mathematician)|Frank Kelly]], British mathematician.