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==Births== * January 15 – [[Edward Teller]] (died [[2003 in science|2003]]), [[Hungary|Hungarian]]-born [[physicist]], inventor of the [[hydrogen bomb]]. * January 18 – [[Jacob Bronowski]] (died [[1974 in science|1974]]), [[Poland|Polish]]-born scientific [[polymath]]. * January 22 – [[Lev Davidovich Landau]] (died [[1968 in science|1968]]), Russian [[physicist]]. * February 11 – [[Vivian Fuchs]] (died [[1999 in science|1999]]), English [[geologist]] and [[List of explorers|explorer]]. * February 25 – [[Mary Locke Petermann]] (died [[1975 in science|1975]]), American cellular [[biochemist]]. * March 15 – [[Thure von Uexküll]] (died [[2004 in science|2004]]), German pioneer of [[psychosomatic medicine]]. * May 14 – [[Nicholas Kurti]], born Kürti Miklós (died [[1998 in science|1998]]), Hungarian-born physicist. * May 23 – [[John Bardeen]] (died [[1991 in science|1991]]), American physicist, co-inventor of the [[transistor]], only physicist to receive the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] twice. * September 2 – [[Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev]] (died [[1983 in science|1983]]), Russian [[astronomer]] and [[astrophysicist]]. * September 6 – [[Louis Essen]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), English physicist, co-developer of the first practical [[atomic clock]]. * September 18 – [[Victor Ambartsumian]] (died [[1996 in science|1996]]), Soviet Armenian theoretical astrophysicist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian – Armenian astronomer|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Amazaspovich-Ambartsumian|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref> * October 10 – [[Min Chueh Chang]] (died [[1991 in science|1991]]), [[China|Chinese]]-born [[embryologist]]. * October 21 – [[Elsie Widdowson]] (died [[2000 in science|2000]]), English [[nutritionist]]. * November 4 – [[Joseph Rotblat]] (died [[2005 in science|2005]]), Polish-born physicist. * December 24 – [[Noël Poynter]] (died [[1979 in science|1979]]), English [[medical historian]].
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