Editing 1996 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 12 – [[Bartel Leendert van der Waerden]] (b. [[1903 in science|1903]]), Dutch [[mathematician]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century|date=2012|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=9780080930664|page=175|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RBrWwKVbmMUC&pg=PA175|language=en}}</ref>
* February 20 – [[Solomon Asch]] (b. [[1907 in science|1907]]), [[Polish American]] [[social psychologist]].<ref>{{cite web|title=About Solomon Asch|url=http://www.brynmawr.edu/aschcenter/about/solomon.htm|website=www.brynmawr.edu|accessdate=21 February 2018|archive-date=6 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806035010/http://www.brynmawr.edu/aschcenter/about/solomon.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* March 19 – [[Chen Jingrun]] (b. [[1933 in science|1933]]), [[Chinese people|Chinese]] mathematician.<ref>{{cite book|last=Song|first=Yuwu|title=Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGbyzKLVh30C&pg=PA35|year=2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-0298-1|page=35}}</ref>
* March 26 – [[David Packard]] (b. [[1912 in science|1912]]), [[Americans|American]] electrical engineer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Obituary: David Packard|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-david-packard-1344506.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-david-packard-1344506.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|website=The Independent|accessdate=21 February 2018|date=28 March 1996}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* June 6 – [[George Davis Snell]] (b. 1903), American mouse [[geneticist]] and basic transplant [[immunologist]].<ref>{{cite web|title=George Davis Snell - American geneticist|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Davis-Snell|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=21 February 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* June 17 – [[Thomas Kuhn]] (b. [[1922 in science|1922]]), American philosopher of science.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary: Thomas S. Kuhn (18 July 1922 - 17 June 1996)|jstor=285595|journal=Social Studies of Science|volume=27|issue=3|pages=483–502|date=1997|last1=Edge|first1=David|last2=Harre|first2=Rom|last3=Brown|first3=Andrew|last4=Barnes|first4=Barry|last5=Mulkay|first5=Michael|last6=Fuller|first6=Steve|last7=Rudwick|first7=Martin|last8=Giere|first8=Ronald N.|last9=Bloor|first9=David|doi=10.1177/030631297027003005|pmid=11619257|s2cid=28154701 }}</ref>
* August 1 – [[Tadeusz Reichstein]] (b. [[1897 in science|1897]]), Polish-Swiss winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Tadeus Reichstein - Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1950/reichstein-bio.html|website=www.nobelprize.org|accessdate=21 February 2018}}</ref>
* August 9 – Sir [[Frank Whittle]] (b. 1907), [[English people|English]] [[aeronautical engineer]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Obituaries: Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-air-commodore-sir-frank-whittle-1309015.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-air-commodore-sir-frank-whittle-1309015.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription|website=The Independent|accessdate=21 February 2018|date=10 August 1996}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* August 12 – [[Victor Ambartsumian]] (b. [[1908 in science|1908]]), Soviet Armenian theoretical astrophysicist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian - Armenian astronomer|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Amazaspovich-Ambartsumian|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=21 February 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* September 1 – [[Karl Kehrle]] (Brother Adam) (b. [[1898 in science|1898]]), British Benedictine monk and [[beekeeper]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Brother Adam - British apiarist|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Brother-Adam|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=21 February 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* September 10 – [[Hans List]] (b. [[1896 in science|1896]]), Austrian inventor.<ref>[https://www.nae.edu/188075/HANS-LIST-18961996 HANS LIST 1896-1996]</ref>
* September 20 – [[Paul Erdős]] (b. [[1913 in science|1913]]), Hungarian-born mathematician.<ref>{{cite web|title=Paul Erdős - Hungarian mathematician|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Erdos|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=21 February 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* October 5 – [[Seymour Cray]] (b. [[1925 in science|1925]]), American supercomputer architect.<ref>{{cite web|title=Seymour R. Cray - American engineer|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seymour-R-Cray|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=21 February 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* November 13 – [[Bobbie Vaile]] (b. [[1959 in science|1959]]), Australian astrophysicist.<ref>{{cite web|title=U-W - Women in Astronomy: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Science Reference Services, Library of Congress)|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/womenastro/womenastro-uw.html|website=www.loc.gov|accessdate=21 February 2018}}</ref>
* November 19 – [[Grace Bates]] (b. [[1914 in science|1914]]), American mathematician.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Beery|first1=Janet L.|author1-link=Janet Beery|last2=Greenwald|first2=Sarah J.|last3=Jensen-Vallin|first3=Jacqueline A.|last4=Mast|first4=Maura B.|author4-link=Maura Mast|title=Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America|date=2017|publisher=Springer|isbn=9783319666945|page=97|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eDVBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA97|language=en}}</ref>
* November 21 – [[Abdus Salam]] (b. [[1926 in science|1926]]), Punjabi-born winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1998.0025 |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 |year=1998 |last1=Kibble |first1=T. W. B. |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* December 20 – [[Carl Sagan]] (b. [[1934 in science|1934]]), American [[astronomer]].<ref>{{cite web|title=CNN - Carl Sagan dies at 62 - Dec. 20, 1996|url=http://edition.cnn.com/US/9612/20/sagan/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060220204613/http://edition.cnn.com/US/9612/20/sagan/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 20, 2006|website=CNN|access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref>