Editing 1971 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 23 – [[Fritz Feigl]] (b. [[1891 in science|1891]]), Austrian-born Brazilian  chemist
* January 25 – [[Donald Winnicott]] (b. [[1896 in science|1896]]), English [[child psychiatrist]].
* February 16 – [[Heinrich Willi]] (b. [[1900 in science|1900]]), [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[pediatrician]].
* February 25 – [[Theodor Svedberg]] (b. [[1884 in science|1884]]), Swedish chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate 
* March 11 – [[Philo T. Farnsworth]] (b. [[1906 in science|1906]]), American [[television]] pioneer.
* April 1 – Dame [[Kathleen Lonsdale]] (b. [[1903 in science|1903]]), [[Ireland|Irish]]-born [[X-ray crystallography|crystallographer]].
* April 6 – [[Margaret Newton]] (b. [[1887 in science|1887]]), [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[plant pathologist]].
* April 12 – [[Igor Tamm]] (b. [[1895 in science|1895]]), Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* June 6 – [[Edward Andrade]] (b. [[1887 in science|1887]]), [[English people|English]] physicist.
* June 15 
** [[Hillel Oppenheimer]] (b. [[1899 in science|1899]]), German-born Israeli botanist.
** [[Wendell Meredith Stanley]] (b. [[1904 in science|1904]]), American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate.
* June 30 – [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[cosmonaut]]s
** [[Georgy Dobrovolsky]] (b. [[1928 in science|1928]])
** [[Vladislav Volkov]] (b. [[1935 in science|1935]])
** [[Viktor Patsayev]] (b. [[1933 in science|1933]])
* September 15 – [[Benno Mengele]] (b. [[1898 in science|1898]]), Austrian electrical engineer