Editing 1990 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 4 – [[Doc Edgerton]], (b. [[1903 in science|1903]]), [[Americans|American]] [[electrical engineer]].
* January 14 – [[Rosalind Pitt-Rivers]] (b. [[1907 in science|1907]]), [[English people|English]] [[biochemist]].
* January 26 – [[Lewis Mumford]] (b. [[1895 in science|1895]]), American historian and philosopher of science.
* February 19 – [[Edris Rice-Wray Carson]] (b. [[1904 in science|1904]]), American-born physician, pioneer in [[family planning]].
* March 20 – [[Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild]] (b. [[1910 in science|1910]]), English [[polymath]].
* March 22 – [[Gerald Bull]] (b. [[1928 in science|1928]]), [[Canadians|Canadian]] engineer.
* March 24 – [[An Wang]] (b. [[1920 in science|1920]]), [[Chinese American]] computer designer.
* May 1 – [[Frits Warmolt Went]] (b. [[1903 in science|1903]]), Dutch-born American botanist.
* May 30 – [[Ora Mendelsohn Rosen]] (b. [[1935 in science|1935]]), American biomedical researcher.
* August 2 – [[François Perrier (psychoanalyst)|François Perrier]] (b. [[1922 in science|1922]]), French psychoanalyst.
* August 18 – [[B. F. Skinner]] (b. [[1904 in science|1904]]), American behavioral [[psychologist]].
* August 30  – [[Bernard D. H. Tellegen]] (b. [[1900 in science|1900]]), Dutch electrical engineer.
* September 2 – [[John Bowlby]] (b. [[1907 in science|1907]]), English [[child psychologist]] and pioneer of [[attachment theory]].
* October 9 – [[Murray Bowen]] (b. [[1913 in science|1913]]), American [[psychiatrist]] and pioneer of [[family therapy]].
* October 17 – [[Hans Freudenthal]] (b. [[1905 in science|1905]]), [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[mathematician]].
* November 19 – [[Georgy Flyorov]] (b. [[1913 in science|1913]]), Russian physicist.
* November 25 – [[Bettina Warburg]] (b. [[1900 in science|1900]]), German-born American psychiatrist.