Editing 1954 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 17 – [[Leonard Eugene Dickson]] (born [[1874 in science|1874]]), American [[mathematician]].
* March 7
** [[Otto Diels]] (born [[1876 in science|1876]]), German [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Chemistry laureate, 1950]].
** [[Ludwik Hirszfeld]] (born [[1884 in science|1884]]), Polish [[microbiologist]] and [[Serology|serologist]].
* April 10 – [[Auguste Lumière]] (born [[1862 in science|1862]]), French inventor, film pioneer.
* April 21 – [[Emil Leon Post|Emil Post]] (born [[1897 in science|1897]]), American mathematician and logician.
* June 7 – [[Alan Turing]] (born [[1912 in science|1912]]), English mathematician and [[computer scientist]] (probable suicide).<ref>{{cite web|title=Alan Turing {{!}} Biography, Facts, & Education|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing|website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref>
* July 11 – [[Henry Valentine Knaggs]] (born [[1859 in science|1859]]), English practitioner of [[naturopathic medicine]].
* October 3 – [[Vera Gaze]] (born [[1899 in science|1899]]), Soviet Russian astronomer.
* October 8 – [[Dimitrie Pompeiu]] (born [[1873 in science|1873]]), Romanian mathematician.
* November 29 – [[Enrico Fermi]] (born [[1901 in science|1901]]), [[Italian American]] [[physicist]].