Editing 1902 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 23 – [[Alfred William Bennett]], British botanist (born [[1833 in science|1833]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Who was who: A Companion to "Who's Who"|publisher=A. & C. Black|year=1967|page=57}}</ref>
* February 11 – [[Caroline Rosenberg]] (born [[1810 in science|1810]]) Danish botanist.
* March 6 – [[Moritz Kaposi]] (born [[1837 in science|1837]]), Hungarian [[dermatologist]].
* April 12 – [[Alfred Cornu]] (born [[1841 in science|1841]]), French physicist<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Cornu, Marie Alfred|volume=7}}</ref>
* May 26 – [[Almon Strowger]] (born [[1839 in science|1839]]), American [[telecommunications engineer]].
* September 5 – [[Rudolf Virchow]] (born [[1821 in science|1821]]), German [[pathologist]] and [[biologist]].
* September 18 – [[Thorborg Rappe]] (born [[1832 in science|1832]]), Swedish pioneer in the education of students with Intellectual disability. 
* November 12 – [[William Henry Barlow]] (born [[1812 in science|1812]]), English railway [[civil engineer]].
* December 22 – [[Richard von Krafft-Ebing]] (born [[1840 in science|1840]]), German [[sexologist]].