Editing 1945 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 4 – [[Richard R. Schrock]], American [[chemist]], [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate.
* February 9 – [[Yoshinori Ohsumi]], Japanese [[cell biologist]], [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate.
* February 26 – [[Michael Marmot]], English [[epidemiologist]].
* February 28 – [[Alexey Ekimov]], Russian-born [[chemist]], [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate.
* March 31 – [[Edwin Catmull]], American [[computer scientist]].
* April 11 – [[John Krebs, Baron Krebs|John Krebs]], English [[zoologist]].
* April 24 – [[Larry Tesler]] (died [[2020 in science|2020]]), American computer scientist.
* April 30 – [[Michael J. Smith (astronaut)|Mike Smith]] (killed [[1986 in science|1986]] in rocket accident), American [[astronaut]].
* May 3 – [[Jeffrey C. Hall]], American [[geneticist]] and [[Chronobiology|chronobiologist]], [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate.
* May 20 – [[Anton Zeilinger]], [[Austrians|Austrian]] quantum physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/press-release/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022|date=2022-10-04|work=[[Nobel Prize]]|publisher=[[The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]]|access-date=2022-10-06}}</ref>
* July 7 – [[Adele Goldberg (computer scientist)|Adele Goldberg]], American computer scientist.
* July 19 – [[Richard Henderson (biologist)|Richard Henderson]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[molecular biologist]], [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate.
* August 1 – [[Douglas Osheroff]], American [[physicist]], [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate.
* September 18 – [[John McAfee]] (presumed suicide [[2021 in science|2021]]), [[British American]] [[computer programmer]].
* September 19 – [[Ruxandra Sireteanu]] (died [[2008 in science|2008]]), [[Romanians|Romanian]] [[neuroscientist]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ganea|first=Constanþa|title=Ruxandra Sireteanu-Constantinescu (1945-2008)|journal=Curierul de Fizica|volume=63|number=1|year=2009|page=18| language=RO}}</ref>
* October 2 – [[Martin Hellman]], American [[cryptologist]].
* Undated – [[Lyn Evans]], [[Welsh people|Welsh]] physicist.