Editing 1900 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 2 – [[Una Ledingham]] (died [[1965 in science|1965]]), English physician specialising in [[diabetes mellitus and pregnancy]].<ref name=BDWS>{{cite book|title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00ogil_0|url-access=registration|year=2000|publisher=Routledge|location=New York}}</ref>
* March 4 – [[Heinrich Willi]] (died [[1971 in science|1971]]), Swiss [[pediatrician]].
* March 8 – [[Howard H. Aiken]] (died [[1973 in science|1973]]), American computing pioneer.
* March 19 – [[Frédéric Joliot]] (died [[1958 in science|1958]]), French [[physicist]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1935/joliot-fred/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=2 January 2022}}</ref>
* March 20 – [[Amelia Chopitea Villa]] (died [[1942 in science|1942]]), Bolivia's first female physician.
* April 3 – [[Albert Ingham]] (died [[1967 in science|1967]]), English [[mathematician]].
* April 25 – [[Wolfgang Pauli]] (died [[1958 in science|1958]]), Austrian-born physicist.
* April 26 – [[Charles Richter]] (died [[1985 in science|1985]]), American [[geophysicist]] and [[inventor]].
* April 28 – [[Jan Oort]] (died [[1992 in science|1992]]), Dutch [[astronomer]].
* May 5 – [[Helen Redfield]] (died [[1988 in science|1988]]), American [[geneticist]].<ref name=BDWS/>
* May 6 – [[Zheng Ji (biochemist)|Zheng Ji]] (died [[2010 in science|2010]]), Chinese biochemist and [[nutritionist]].
* May 10 – [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] (died [[1979 in science|1979]]), 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>
* May 22 – [[Honor Fell]] (died [[1986 in science|1986]]), English biologist.
* June 3 – [[Leo Picard]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), German-born Israeli geologist.
* June 24 – [[Wilhelm Cauer]] (killed [[1945 in science|1945]]), German mathematician and [[electronic engineer]].
* June 25 
** [[Zinaida Aksentyeva]] (died [[1969 in science|1969]]), Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer.
** [[Philip D'Arcy Hart]] (died [[2006 in science|2006]]), English medical researcher, pioneer in tuberculosis treatment.
* June 30 – [[James Stagg]] (died [[1975 in science|1975]]) Scottish [[meteorologist]].
* July 9 – [[Frances McConnell-Mills]], born Frances Mary McConnell (died [[1975 in science|1975]]), American [[toxicologist]].
* August 25 – [[Hans Adolf Krebs]] (died [[1981 in science|1981]]), German-born [[medical doctor]] and [[biochemist]].
* August 26 – [[Hellmuth Walter]] (died [[1980 in science|1980]]), German-born [[engineer]] and inventor.
* October 2 – [[Isabella Forshall]] (died [[1989 in science|1989]]), English [[pediatric surgeon]].
* November 5 – [[Ethelwynn Trewavas]] (died [[1993 in science|1993]]), English [[ichthyologist]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ethelwynn-trewavas-1462529.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ethelwynn-trewavas-1462529.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Ethelwynn Trewavas|date=1993-08-21|work=[[The Independent]]|location=London|accessdate=2017-10-22}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* November 21 – [[Bettina Warburg]] (died [[1990 in science|1990]]), German-born American psychiatrist.
* November 26 – [[Anna Maurizio]] (died [[1993 in science|1993]]), Swiss biologist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/maurizio-anna-1900-1993|title=Maurizio, Anna (1900–1993) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary|website=encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=2017-10-22|archive-date=October 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023011417/http://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/maurizio-anna-1900-1993|url-status=live}}</ref>
* December 9 – [[Joseph Needham]] (died [[1995 in science|1995]]), English biochemist and writer on the [[history of science and technology in China]].
* December 12 – [[Mária Telkes]] (died [[1995 in science|1995]]), Hungarian-American scientist and inventor.
* December 17 – [[Mary Cartwright]] (died [[1998 in science|1998]]), English mathematician, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits/Cartwright.html|title=Mary Cartwright Times obituary|website=www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk|accessdate=2017-10-20}}</ref>
* [[Robina Addis]] (died [[1986 in science|1986]]), English psychiatric social worker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/mental-healthcare/robina-addis/|title=Robina Addis|publisher=[[Wellcome Library]]|accessdate=2019-03-16}}</ref>
* [[Margaret Altmann]] (died [[1984 in science|1984]]), German-American biologist.<ref>{{Cite book|title=American women of science since 1900|last=Wayne|first=Tiffany K.|date=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781598841589|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|pages=189|oclc=702118874}}</ref>
* [[Ernest Gibbins]] (killed [[1942 in science|1942]]), English [[entomologist]].