Editing 1929 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 3 – [[Gordon Moore]] (died [[2023 in science|2023]]), American computing entrepreneur and scientific benefactor.
* January 8 – [[Erich Jantsch]] (died [[1980 in science|1980]]), Austrian astrophysicist.
* January 29 – [[John Polanyi]], German-born Canadian winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].
* January 30 – [[Isamu Akasaki]] (died [[2021 in science|2021]]), Japanese electronics engineer, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
* January 31 – [[Rudolf Mössbauer]] (died [[2011 in science|2011]]), German winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
* April 5 – [[Ivar Giaever]], Norwegian winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
* April 8 – [[Morton B. Panish]], American [[physical chemist]].
* April 16 – [[Ralph Slatyer]] (died [[2012 in science|2012]]), Australian [[Ecology|ecologist]] and first [[Office of the Chief Scientist (Australia)|Chief Scientist of Australia]].
* April 22 – [[Michael Atiyah]] (died [[2019 in science|2019]]), British [[mathematician]].
* May 6 – [[Paul Lauterbur]] (died [[2007 in science|2007]]), American [[chemist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].
* May 10 – [[Geoffrey Burnstock]] (died [[2020 in science|2020]]), English-born [[neurobiologist]].
* May 17 – [[Kurt Gottfried]] (died [[2022 in science|2022]]), Austrian-born American physicist.
* May 29 – [[Peter Higgs]] (died [[2024 in science|2024]]), English theoretical physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
* June 3 – [[Werner Arber]], Swiss [[microbiologist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].
* June 10 – [[E. O. Wilson]] (died [[2021 in science|2021]]), American [[entomologist]].
* July 1 – [[Gerald Edelman]] (died [[2014 in science|2014]]), American [[microbiologist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].
* July 19 – [[Gaston Glock]], Austrian engineer and inventor
* August 4 – [[Raymond Smallman]] (died [[2015 in science|2015]]), British [[metallurgist]] and academic.
* September 5 – [[Andrian Nikolayev]] (died [[2004 in science|2004]]), [[Chuvash people|Chuvash]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]].
* September 15
** [[Murray Gell-Mann]] (died [[2019 in science|2019]]), American theoretical physicist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
** [[Stan Kelly-Bootle]] (died [[2014 in science|2014]]), English computer programmer and folk singer-songwriter.
* October 19 – [[Lewis Wolpert]] (died [[2021 in science|2021]]), British [[Developmental biology|developmental biologist]], author and broadcaster.
* November 2 – [[Richard E. Taylor]] (died [[2018 in science|2018]]), Canadian American winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
* November 7 – [[Eric R. Kandel]], Austrian-born [[neuropsychiatrist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].
* November 24 – [[Franciszek Kokot]] (died [[2021 in science|2021]]), Polish [[nephrologist]].
* December 28 – [[Maarten Schmidt]]  (died [[2022 in science|2022]]), Dutch-born American astronomer
* December 31 – [[Võ Quý]] (died [[2017 in science|2017]]), Vietnamese zoologist.