Editing 1968 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 6 – [[Xu Shunshou]] (born [[1917 in science|1917]]), [[Chinese people|Chinese]] [[aeronautical engineer]].
* February 1 – [[Jacob van der Hoeden]] (born [[1891 in science|1891]]), Dutch-Israeli veterinary scientist 
* February 21 – [[Howard Florey]] (born [[1898 in science|1898]]), Australian pharmacologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]]
* February 22 – [[May Smith (psychologist)|May Smith]] (born [[1879 in science|1879]]), [[English people|English]] [[experimental psychologist]].
* March 27 – [[Yuri Gagarin]] (born [[1934 in science|1934]]), [[Russia]]n [[astronaut|cosmonaut]], the first man in [[Outer space|space]].
* April 1 – [[Lev Davidovich Landau]] (born [[1908 in science|1908]]), Russian [[physicist]].
* June 21 – [[Constance Georgina Adams|Constance Georgina Tardrew]] (born [[1883 in science|1883]]), South African botanist.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rall |first=Maureen |title=Petticoat Pioneers: The History of the Pioneer Women who Lived on the Diamond Fields in the Early Years| location=Kimberley, South Africa |publisher=Kimberley Africana Library |year=2002 |page=117 |isbn=978-0-62027-613-9}}</ref>
* July 22 – [[Muthulakshmi Reddi]] (born [[1886 in science|1886]]), [[Indian people|Indian]] [[physician]] and social reformer.
* July 28 – [[Otto Hahn]] (born [[1879 in science|1879]]), [[Germans|German]] [[chemist]], recipient of [[1944 in science|1944]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].
* October 27 – [[Lise Meitner]] (born [[1878 in science|1878]]), German physicist, discoverer in 1939, with Otto Hahn, of nuclear fission.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bailey Ogilvie |first1=Marilyn |last2=Harvey| first2=Joy |title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z | location=London |publisher=Routledge| year=2000 |isbn=978-0-41592-040-7 |page=877}}</ref>
* November 8 – [[Chika Kuroda]] (born [[1884 in science|1884]]), Japanese chemist.<ref>[https://www.lib.ocha.ac.jp/archives/en/researcher/kuroda_chika.html?grid=txtlink Chika Kuroda--日本初の女性化学者]</ref>