Editing 1997 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 8 – [[Melvin Calvin]] (b. [[1911 in science|1911]]), [[Americans|American]] [[chemist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].
* January 12 – [[Jean Hoerni]] (b. [[1924 in science|1924]]), Swiss-American microelectronics engineer, developer of the [[planar process]].
* January 15 – [[Kenneth V. Thimann]] (b. [[1904 in science|1904]]), English-American [[plant physiologist]] and [[microbiologist]] known for his studies of [[plant hormones]].
* January 17 – [[Clyde Tombaugh]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), American [[astronomer]], discoverer of [[Pluto]].
* February 16 – [[Chien-Shiung Wu]] (b. [[1912 in science|1912]]), Chinese-American nuclear physicist, winner of the [[Wolf Prize in Physics]].
* March 4 – [[Robert H. Dicke]] (b. [[1916 in science|1916]]), American [[physicist]].
* March 7 – [[Edward Mills Purcell]] (b. [[1912 in science|1912]]), American [[physicist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].<ref>{{cite web |title=E.M. Purcell {{!}} American physicist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-M-Purcell |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=17 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* March 29 – [[Norman Pirie]] (b. [[1907 in science|1907]]), [[British people|British]] [[virologist]].
* April 4 – [[Leo Picard]] (b. [[1900 in science|1900]]), German-born Israeli geologist.
* April 7 – [[Georgi Shonin]] (b. [[1935 in science|1935]]), Soviet [[cosmonaut]].
* April 12 – [[George Wald]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), American [[physiologist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].
* May 2 – [[John Eccles (neurophysiologist)|Sir John Eccles]] (b. [[1903 in science|1903]]), Australian [[neurophysiologist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].
* June 25 – [[Jacques Cousteau]] (b. [[1910 in science|1910]]), French [[oceanographer]].
* July 4 – [[J. Z. Young]] (b. [[1907 in science|1907]]), English [[zoologist]] and neurophysiologist.
* August 4 – [[Jeanne Calment]] (b. [[1875 in science|1875]]), French supercentenarian, [[Oldest people|oldest person]] in confirmed history.
* August 23 – Sir [[John Kendrew]] (b. [[1917 in science|1917]]), English [[molecular biologist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].
* August 24 – [[Louis Essen]] (b. [[1908 in science|1908]]), English [[physicist]], co-developer of the first practical [[atomic clock]].
* October 23 – [[Mary Helen Wright Greuter|Helen Wright Greuter]] (b. [[1914 in science|1914]]), American historian of astronomy.
* September 2 – [[Viktor Frankl]] (b. [[1905 in science|1905]]), [[Austrians|Austrian]] [[psychotherapist]].
* September 4 – [[Hans Eysenck]] (b. [[1916 in science|1916]]), British psychologist.
* December 9 – [[Karl August Folkers]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), American [[biochemist]].
* December 17 – [[Reginald Victor Jones|R. V. Jones]] (b. [[1911 in science|1911]]), English physicist, expert in electronic military defence.
* December 26 – [[Cahit Arf]] (b. [[1910 in science|1910]]), Turkish mathematician.