Editing 1985 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* March 10 – [[C. B. van Niel]] (b. [[1897 in science|1897]]), [[Dutch American]] [[microbiologist]].
* April 20 – [[Charles Richter]] (b. [[1900 in science|1900]]), American [[geophysicist]] and [[List of inventors|inventor]].
* July 20 – [[Bruno de Finetti]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), Italian [[statistician]].
* August 5 – [[Arnold Wilkins]] (b. [[1907 in science|1907]]), [[English people|English]] pioneer of [[radar]].
* August 31 – [[Frank Macfarlane Burnet]] (b. [[1899 in science|1899]]), Australian [[Virology|virologist]] best known for his contributions to [[immunology]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].
* September 6 – [[Rodney Robert Porter|Rodney Porter]] (b. [[1917 in science|1917]]), English [[biochemist]], winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* September 7 – [[George Pólya]] (b. [[1887 in science|1887]]), Hungarian [[mathematician]].
* September 10 – [[Ernst Öpik]] (b. [[1893 in science|1893]]), Estonian [[astronomer]] and [[astrophysicist]].
* October 22 – [[Thomas Townsend Brown]] (b. [[1905 in science|1905]]), American inventor.
* November 24 – [[László Bíró]] (b. [[1899 in science|1899]]), Hungarian inventor.
* December 21 – [[Elliott Organick]] (b. [[1925 in science|1925]]), American computer scientist and educator
* c. December 26 – [[Dian Fossey]] (b. [[1932 in science|1932]]), American [[primatologist]] (murdered).