Editing 1998 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* March 13 – [[Hans von Ohain]] (b. [[1911 in science|1911]]), German aeronautical engineer.
* March 15 – [[Benjamin Spock]] (b. [[1903 in science|1903]]), American [[pediatrician]].
* March 16 – Sir [[Derek Barton]] (b. [[1918 in science|1918]]), English-born [[organic chemist]], [[Nobel laureate]]. 
* May 9 – [[R. J. G. Savage]] (b. [[1927 in science|1927]]), British [[palaeontologist]].
* May 14 – [[Marjory Stoneman Douglas]] (b. [[1890 in science|1890]]), American conservationist.
* May 22 – [[José Enrique Moyal]] (b. [[1910 in science|1910]]), Jerusalem-born mathematical physicist.
* May 31 – [[Michio Suzuki (mathematician)|Michio Suzuki]] (b. [[1926 in science|1926]]), Japanese [[mathematician]].
* July 3 – [[Danielle Bunten Berry]], also known as Dan Bunten (b. [[1949 in science|1949]]), American software developer.
* July 12 – [[Arkady Ostashev]] (b. [[1925 in science|1925]]), Soviet, Russian scientist, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth [[Sputnik 1|satellite]] and the [[Yuri Gagarin|first cosmonaut]], [[Kandidat|Candidate of Technical Sciences]], [[Docent]], [[laureate]] of the [[Lenin Prize|Lenin]] and [[USSR State Prize|state]] [[prize]]s.
* July 14 – [[Miroslav Holub]] (b. [[1923 in science|1923]]), [[Czechs|Czech]] immunologist and poet.
* July 21 – [[Alan Shepard]] (b. 1923), American [[astronaut]].
* August 4 – [[Yury Artyukhin]] (b. [[1930 in science|1930]]), Soviet Russian [[Astronaut|cosmonaut]].
* August 26 – [[Frederick Reines]] (b. 1918), American [[physicist]], Nobel laureate.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilford |first1=John Noble |title=Frederick Reines Dies at 80; Nobelist Discovered Neutrino |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/28/us/frederick-reines-dies-at-80-nobelist-discovered-neutrino.html |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 August 1998 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* October 10 – [[Konstantin Petrzhak]] (b. [[1907 in science|1907]]), Soviet Russian physicist.
* October 28 – [[Tommy Flowers]] (b. [[1905 in science|1905]]), English computer engineer.
* November 12 – [[Sally Shlaer]] (b. [[1938 in science|1938]]), US mathematician and engineer 
* November 24 – [[Nicholas Kurti]] (b. [[1908 in science|1908]]), Hungarian-born physicist.
* December 5 – [[Hazel Bishop]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), American cosmetic chemist.
* December 7 – [[Martin Rodbell]] (b. 1925), American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist, Nobel laureate.
* December 17 – [[Claudia Benton]] (b. c.1959), American [[pediatric]] [[neurologist]] (murdered).
* December 18 – [[Lev Dyomin]] (b. 1926), Soviet Russian cosmonaut.
* December 20 – [[Alan Lloyd Hodgkin|Sir Alan Hodgkin]] (b. [[1914 in science|1914]]), English [[physiologist]], Nobel laureate.
* December 28 – [[Robert Rosen (theoretical biologist)|Robert Rosen]] (b. [[1934 in science|1934]]), American theoretical biologist.