Editing 1912 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* February 10 – [[Joseph Lister]] (born 1827), English inventor of [[antiseptic]].
* February 12 – [[Osborne Reynolds]] (born 1842), British physicist.
* March 19 – [[Thomas Harrison Montgomery Jr.]] (born 1873), American zoologist and cell biologist.
* March 28 – [[Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran]] (born [[1838 in science|1838]]), French chemist.
* March 29
** [[Robert Falcon Scott]] (born 1868), English [[Antarctic]] [[List of explorers|explorer]].
** [[Edward Adrian Wilson|Edward Wilson]] (born 1872), English physician and [[naturalist]].
* April 18 – [[Martha Ripley]]  (born [[1843 in science|1843]]), American physician.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ogilvie |first1=Marilyn Bailey |last2=Harvey |first2=Joy Dorothy |author-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie |author-link2=Joy Harvey |title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z |date=2000 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-415-92040-7 |page=1102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1102 }}</ref>
* May 4 – [[Nettie Stevens]] (born 1861), American [[geneticist]].
* May 30 – [[Wilbur Wright]] (born 1867), American aviation pioneer.
* July 17 – [[Henri Poincaré]] (born 1854), French mathematician.
* August 7 – [[François-Alphonse Forel]] (born 1841), [[Swiss people|Swiss]] pioneer of [[limnology]].
* November 23 – [[Charles Bourseul]] (born [[1829 in science|1829]]), French [[telegraph]] engineer.
* December 17 – [[Spiru Haret]] (born [[1851 in science|1851]]), Romanian mathematician, astronomer and politician.
* December 21 – [[Paul Gordan]] (born [[1837 in science|1837]]), German Jewish mathematician, "the king of [[invariant theory]]".