Editing 2005 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* February 3 – [[Ernst Mayr]] (b. [[1904 in science|1904]]), German-American [[evolutionary biologist]].
* February 6 – [[Hubert Curien]] (b. [[1924 in science|1924]]), French physicist,  President of [[CERN]] and first chairman of [[ESA]].
* February 10 – [[D. Allan Bromley]] (b. [[1926 in science|1926]]), Canadian-American director of [[Yale]]'s A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory.
* March 6 – [[Hans Bethe]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), German-American Nobel laureate in Physics (1967) for his discoveries concerning the energy production mechanism in [[star]]s.
* March 31 – [[Stanley J. Korsmeyer]] (b. [[1950 in science|1950]]), American [[cell biologist]].
* April 11 – [[Maurice Hilleman]] (b. [[1919 in science|1919]]), American [[vaccinologist]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dove|first=Alan|date=April 2005|title=Maurice Hilleman|journal=[[Nature Medicine]]|volume=11|issue=4|pages=S2|doi=10.1038/nm1223|pmid=15812484|s2cid=13028372|issn=1546-170X|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* June 20
** [[Charles David Keeling]] (b. [[1928 in science|1928]]), American climate scientist, first to make frequent measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, plotted on the [[Keeling Curve]].
** [[Jack Kilby]] (b. [[1923 in science|1923]]), American electronics engineer, Nobel laureate in Physics (2000) for his work on [[integrated circuit]]s.
* July 16 – [[John Ostrom]] (b. [[1928 in science|1928]]), American [[paleontologist]], pioneer of the "[[dinosaur renaissance]]".
* August 21 – [[Robert Moog]] (b. [[1934 in science|1934]]), pioneer of [[electronic music]].
* August 31 – Sir [[Joseph Rotblat]] (b. [[1908 in science|1908]]), Polish-born British [[nuclear physicist]], Nobel laureate in Peace.
* October 28 – [[Richard Smalley]] (b. [[1943 in science|1943]]), American Nobel laureate in [[Chemistry]] (1996) for the discovery of a new form of carbon, [[Buckminsterfullerene]].
* November 16 – [[Henry Taube]] (b. [[1915 in science|1915]]), Canadian-American Nobel laureate in [[Chemistry]] (1983) for his work in the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.