Editing 1926 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 11 – [[Lev Dyomin]] (died [[1998 in science|1998]]), Soviet Russian cosmonaut.
* January 29 – [[Abdus Salam]] (died [[1996 in science|1996]]), Punjabi theoretical physicist.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kibble|first1=T. W. B.|title=Muhammad Abdus Salam, K. B. E.. 29 January 1926-21 November 1996|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=44|pages=387–401|language=en|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1998.0025|date=1 November 1998|doi-access=}}</ref>
* February – [[David Medved]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), American physicist.
* March 7 – [[Margaret Weston]] (died [[2021 in science|2021]]), English electrical engineer and Director of the [[Science Museum, London]].
* April 3 – [[Gus Grissom]] (died [[1967 in science|1967]]), American [[astronaut]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Virgil I. Grissom {{!}} American astronaut |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virgil-I-Grissom |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=19 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* May 1 – [[Eva Siracká]] (died [[2023 in science|2023]]), Slovak physician
* May 8 – [[David Attenborough]], [[English people|English]] broadcaster and naturalist.
* May 17 – [[Franz Sondheimer]] (died [[1981 in science|1981]]), German-born British chemist
* June 19 – [[Erna Schneider Hoover]], American computer technologist.
* June 23 – [[Lawson Soulsby]] (died [[2017 in science|2017]]), English [[parasitologist]].
* July 27 – [[W. David Kingery]] (died [[2000 in science|2000]]), American [[materials scientist]] specializing in [[ceramic materials]].
* July 31 
** [[Bernard Nathanson]] (died [[2011 in science|2011]]), American medical doctor and activist.
** [[Hilary Putnam]] (died [[2016 in science|2016]]), American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist.
* August 11 – [[Aaron Klug|Sir Aaron Klug]] (died [[2018 in science|2018]]), Lithuanian-born British biophysicist and chemist.
* August 19 – [[George Daniels (watchmaker)|George Daniels]] (died [[2011 in science|2011]]), English horologist.
* September 4 – [[George William Gray]] (died [[2013 in science|2013]]), Scottish [[chemist]], discoverer of stable [[liquid crystal]] materials leading to the development of [[liquid-crystal display]]s.
* September 7 – [[Donald Pinkel]] (died [[2022 in science|2022]]), American [[pediatric]] [[hematologist]] and [[oncologist]].
* September 15 – [[Jean-Pierre Serre]], French [[mathematician]].
* October 2 – [[Michio Suzuki (mathematician)|Michio Suzuki]] (died [[1998 in science|1998]]), Japanese mathematician.
* October 12 – [[Ruth L. Kirschstein]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), American [[pathologist]] and science administrator at the [[National Institutes of Health]].
* October 31 – [[Narinder Singh Kapany]] (died [[2020 in science|2020]]), Punjabi-born physicist.
* November 29 – [[Dilhan Eryurt]] (died [[2012 in science|2012]]), Turkish astrophysicist.
* December 10 – [[Neena Schwartz]] (died [[2018 in science|2018]]), American [[endocrinologist]].