Editing 1979 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January – [[Oscar H. Banker]] (b. [[1895 in science|1895]]), [[Armenian American]] inventor.
* March 11 – [[Noël Poynter]] (b. [[1908 in science|1908]]), English [[medical historian]].
* March 17 – [[Henry Aaron Hill]] (b. [[1915 in science|1915]]), [[Americans|American]] [[fluorocarbon]] chemist, first [[African American]] president of the [[American Chemical Society]].
* April 5 – [[Eugène Gabritschevsky]] (b. [[1893 in science|1893]]), [[Russia]]n [[biologist]] and [[artist]].
* May 6 – [[Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth]] (b. [[1892 in science|1892]]), [[Germans|German]] [[astronomer]].
* June 1 – [[Werner Forssmann]] (b. [[1904 in science|1904]]), German [[physician]], recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* September 26 – Sir [[Barnes Wallis]] (b. [[1887 in science|1887]]), [[English people|English]] [[aeronautical engineer]].
* October 10 – [[Guido Fanconi]] (b. [[1892 in science|1892]]), [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[pediatrician]].
* October 12 – [[Katharine Burr Blodgett]] (b. [[1898 in science|1898]]), American physicist and chemist.
* December 7 – [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] (b. [[1900 in science|1900]]), English-born American astronomer and astrophysicist.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers|date=2007|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780387304007|location=New York}}</ref>