Editing 1972 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* February 20 – [[Maria Goeppert Mayer]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), German-American theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. 
* May 4 – [[Edward Calvin Kendall]] (b. [[1886 in science|1886]]), American chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].
* May 8 – [[Beatrice Helen Worsley]] (b. [[1921 in science|1921]]), Canadian [[computer scientist]].
* August 11 – [[Max Theiler]] (b. [[1899 in science|1899]]), South African-born American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* August 22 – [[Ștefan Procopiu]] (b. [[1890 in science|18990]]), Romanian physicist.
* August 25 – [[Lucien Bull]] (b. [[1876 in science|1876]]), Irish-born French pioneer in [[chronophotography]].
* October 1 – [[Louis Leakey]] (b. [[1903 in science|1903]]), British [[paleoanthropologist]].
* November 25 – [[Henri Coandă]] (b. 1886), Romanian [[aeronautical engineer]].