Editing 1901 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 14 – [[Alfred Tarski]] (died [[1983 in science|1983]]), [[Polish Jew]]ish [[logician]] and [[mathematician]].
* January 18 – [[Frank Zamboni]] (died [[1988 in science|1988]]), American inventor 
* February 28 – [[Linus Pauling]] (died [[1994 in science|1994]]), American [[chemist]], [[Nobel Prize]] winner for chemistry and peace.
* March 2 – [[Grete Hermann]] (died [[1984 in science|1984]]), German mathematician and philosopher
* March 6 – [[Rex Wailes]] (died [[1986 in science|1986]]), English engineer and historian of technology.
* March 9 – [[Joachim Hämmerling]] (died [[1980 in science|1980]]), German-born Danish biologist.
* April 13 – [[Jacques Lacan]] (died [[1981 in science|1981]]), French [[psychoanalyst]].
* April 23 – [[E. B. Ford]] (died [[1988 in science|1988]]), English [[Ecological genetics|ecological geneticist]] and [[lepidopterist]].
* April 29 – [[Hirohito]] (died [[1989 in science|1989]]), marine biologist and [[Emperor of Japan]].
* May 21 – [[Manfred Aschner]] (died [[1989 in science|1989]]), German-born Israeli microbiologist and entomologist.
* July 2 – [[Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind]] (died [[2002 in science|2002]]), American neurologist and psychiatrist.
* August 8 – [[Ernest Lawrence]] (died [[1958 in science|1958]]), American nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939.
* August 10 – [[Franco Rasetti]] (died [[2001 in science|2001]]), Italian [[physicist]].
* September 15 – [[Elie Carafoli]] (died [[1983 in science|1983]]), [[Aromanians|Aromanian]] aeronautical engineer.
* September 29 – [[Enrico Fermi]] (died [[1954 in science|1954]]), Italian nuclear physicist.
* October 8 – [[Mark Oliphant]] (died [[2000 in science|2000]]), Australian nuclear physicist.
* November 6 – [[Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker]] (died [[1957 in science|1957]]), British [[phycologist]].
* December 5 – [[Werner Heisenberg]] (died [[1976 in science|1976]]), German [[theoretical physicist]].
* December 16 – [[Margaret Mead]] (died [[1978 in science|1978]]), American [[cultural anthropologist]].
* December 20 – [[Robert J. Van de Graaff]] (died [[1967 in science|1967]]), American physicist.