Editing 1930 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 9 – [[Jacob T. Schwartz]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), [[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]] and professor of computer science at the [[New York University]] [[Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences]].
* January 13 – [[Harold Furth]] (died [[2002 in science|2002]]), [[Austria]]n-born expert in [[plasma physics]] and [[nuclear fusion]].
* January 20 – [[Buzz Aldrin]], American [[astronaut]], [[lunar module]] pilot on [[Apollo 11]].
* February 7 – [[Ikutaro Kakehashi]] (died [[2017 in science|2017]]), [[Japanese people|Japanese]] electronic music engineer.
* February 23 – [[Goro Shimura]] (died [[2019 in science|2019]]), Japanese mathematician.
* February 28 – [[Leon Cooper]], American [[physicist]] and [[Nobel Prize for Physics|Nobel Prize winner]].
* March 7 – [[Daphne Osborne]] (died [[2006 in science|2006]]), [[British people|British]] botanist.
* March 15 – [[Martin Karplus]] (died [[2024 in science|2024]]), Austrian-born [[theoretical chemist]] and [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry|Nobel Prize winner]].
* April 9 – [[Nathaniel Branden]] (died [[2014 in science|2014]]), [[Canadian American]] [[psychotherapist]].
* April 16 – [[Louis Herman]] (died [[2016 in science|2016]]), American [[marine biologist]], investigator in [[animal communication]].
* April 20 – [[Gordon Hamilton Fairley]] (killed [[1975 in science|1975]]), British [[oncologist]].
* May 9 – [[Susan Leeman]], American [[neuroendocrinologist]].
* May 11 – [[Edsger W. Dijkstra]] (died [[2003 in science|2002]]), [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[computer scientist]].
* May 28 – [[Frank Drake]] (died [[2022 in science|2022]]), American radio astronomer, pioneer in [[SETI]]
* June 2 – [[Pete Conrad]] (died [[1999 in science|1999]]), American astronaut.
* June 22 – [[Yury Artyukhin]] (died [[1998 in science|1998]]), Soviet Russian [[Astronaut|cosmonaut]].
* June 28 – [[William C. Campbell (scientist)|William C. Campbell]], [[Ireland|Irish]]-born [[parasitologist]] and [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize winner]].
* August 5 – [[Neil Armstrong]] (died [[2012 in science#August 2|2012]]), American astronaut, first person to walk on the Moon.
* August 7 – [[Joe Farman]] (died [[2013 in science|2013]]), British [[geophysicist]] working for the [[British Antarctic Survey]].
* September 7 – [[Yuan Longping]] (died [[2021 in science|2021]]), Chinese [[agronomist]].
* September 12 – [[Akira Suzuki (chemist)|Akira Suzuki]], Japanese chemist and [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize winner]].
* September 24 – [[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]] (died [[2018 in science|2018]]), American astronaut.
* October 10 – [[Yves Chauvin]] (died [[2015 in science|2015]]), [[Belgium|Belgian]]-born chemist and [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry|Nobel Prize winner]].
* October 17 – [[Robert Atkins (nutritionist)|Robert Atkins]] (died [[2003 in science|2003]]), American [[nutritionist]].
* October 27 – [[Gladys West]], née Gladys Mae Brown, African American mathematician.
* October 31 – [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]] (died [[2021 in science|2021]]), American astronaut.
* November 11 – [[Mildred Dresselhaus]], née Spiewak (died [[2017 in science|2017]]), American [[Nanotechnology|nanotechnologist]].
* November 14 – [[Ed White (astronaut)|Ed White]] (died in training accident [[1967 in science|1967]]), American astronaut.<ref>{{cite web |title=Edward H. White II {{!}} American astronaut |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-H-White-II |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=19 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* December 17 – [[Dorothy Rowe]], née Conn (died [[2019 in science|2019]]), [[Australians|Australian]] [[psychologist]].
* December 30
** [[Roy Yorke Calne]] (died [[2024 in science|2024]]), English surgeon, pioneer of transplantation.
** [[Tu Youyou]], Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize winner]].