Editing 1945 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* March 23 – [[Napier Shaw|Sir Napier Shaw]] (born [[1854 in science|1854]]), English [[meteorologist]].
* April 22 – [[Wilhelm Cauer]] (born [[1900 in science|1900]]), German mathematician and electronic engineer, shot during Battle of Berlin.
* May 12 – [[Julius Fromm]] (born [[1883 in science|1883]]), German businessman, inventor known for the [[Condom machine]] 
* May 14 – [[Isis Pogson]] (born [[1852 in science|1852]]), English [[astronomer]] and meteorologist.
* August 4 – [[Gerhard Gentzen]] (born [[1909 in science|1909]]), German [[mathematician]], starved in prison camp.
* August 10 – [[Robert Goddard (scientist)|Robert Goddard]] (born [[1882 in science|1882]]), American [[rocket]] scientist, throat cancer.
* August 31 – [[Stefan Banach]] (born [[1892 in science|1892]]), Polish [[mathematician]], lung cancer.
* September 15 – [[Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer]] (born [[1858 in science|1858]]), German [[physician]] and [[bacteriologist]].
* September 24 – [[Hans Geiger]] (born [[1882 in science|1882]]), German [[inventor]] of the [[Geiger counter]].
* October 1 – [[Walter Bradford Cannon]] (born [[1871 in science|1871]]), American [[physiologist]].
* November 20 – [[Francis William Aston]] (born [[1877 in science|1877]]), English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate.
* December 4 – [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]] (born [[1866 in science|1866]]), American [[biologist]], [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate.
* December 11 – [[Charles Fabry]] (born [[1867 in science|1867]]), French [[Optical physics|optical physicist]].
* December 21/22 – [[Arthur Korn]] (born [[1870 in science|1870]]), German-born inventor.