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==Deaths== * March 9 β [[Robert Gunther]] (born [[1869 in science|1869]]), English historian of science. * April 13 β [[Pierre Marie]] (born [[1853 in science|1853]]), French [[neurologist]]. * April 29 β [[Edgar Buckingham]] (born [[1867 in science|1867]]), American physicist. * June 17 β [[Arthur Harden]] (born [[1865 in science|1865]]), English [[biochemist]] and Nobel laureate in chemistry. * June 21 β [[John T. Thompson]] (born [[1860 in science|1860]]), American inventor. * July 31 β [[Louis Charles Christopher Krieger]] (born [[1873 in science|1873]]), American [[mycologist]]. * August 30 β [[J. J. Thomson]] (born [[1856 in science|1856]]), English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. * November 8 β [[Arthur Vierendeel]] (born [[1852 in science|1852]]), [[Belgians|Belgian]] [[civil engineer]]. * November 17 β [[Raymond Pearl]] (born [[1879 in science|1879]]), American [[biologist]]. * December 16 β [[EugΓ¨ne Dubois]] (born [[1858 in science|1858]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[paleoanthropology|paleoanthropologist]]. * December 17 β [[Alicia Boole Stott]] (born [[1860 in science|1860]]) [[British people|British]] mathematician.
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