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==Deaths== * January 21 β [[Frances Gertrude McGill]] (born [[1882 in science|1882]]), pioneering Canadian [[forensic pathologist]]. * February 15 β [[Owen Willans Richardson|Sir Owen Richardson]] (born [[1879 in science|1879]]), English [[physicist]] ([[Nobel Prize in Physics]] [[1928 in science|1928]]). * June 9 β [[Adolf Windaus]] (born [[1876 in science|1876]]), German [[chemist]] ([[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] 1928). * June 11 β [[Grantly Dick-Read]] (born [[1890 in science|1890]]), English [[obstetrician]]. * September 30 β [[Ross Granville Harrison]] (born [[1870 in science|1870]]), American [[physiologist]]. * October 29 ** [[Samuel James Cameron]] (born [[1878 in science|1878]]), Scottish obstetrician. ** [[Edith Clarke]] (born [[1883 in science|1883]]), American electrical engineer, inducted into the [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]] * November 15 β [[C. T. R. Wilson]] (born [[1869 in science|1869]]), Scottish physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics [[1927 in science|1927]]).
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