Editing 1946 in science (section)

==Births==
* February 26 – [[Ahmed Zewail]] (died [[2016 in science|2016]]), Egyptian-born "father of [[femtochemistry]]", recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
* May 11 – [[Robert Jarvik]], American co-inventor of the [[Jarvik-7]] [[artificial heart]]
* June 13 – [[Paul L. Modrich]], American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* June 24 – [[Ellison Onizuka]] (killed [[1986 in science|1986]]), American [[astronaut]]
* July 2 – [[Richard Axel]], American [[physiologist]], recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* August 2 – [[Nigel Hitchin]], English mathematician
* August 5 – [[Shirley Ann Jackson]], African American physicist
* August 11 – [[Marilyn vos Savant]], American polymath
* September 7 – [[Francisco Varela]] (died [[2001 in science|2001]]), Chilean-born [[biologist]] and [[philosopher]]
* September 8 – [[Aziz Sancar]], Turkish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* September 9 – [[Adrian Smith (statistician)|Adrian Smith]], English statistician, [[President of the Royal Society]]
* September 28 – [[Morinobu Endo]], Japanese [[chemist]]
* October 14 – [[Kay Redfield Jamison]], American [[clinical psychologist]]
* October 17 – [[Carol Dweck]], American [[social psychologist]]
* October 29 – [[Peter Barnes (respiratory scientist)|Peter Barnes]], English respiratory scientist
* December 31 – [[Roy Porter]] (died [[2002 in science|2002]]), English [[medical historian]]
* [[Faiza Al-Kharafi]], Kuwaiti electrochemist