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==Deaths== [[File:Challenger flight 51-l crew.jpg|thumb|Crew of NASA [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']] mission [[STS-51-L]]]] * January 7 – [[Rex Wailes]] (b. [[1901 in science|1901]]), English engineer and historian of technology. * January 28 ** Crew of United States [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']] mission [[STS-51-L]]: *** [[Greg Jarvis]] (b. 1944) *** [[Christa McAuliffe]] (b. 1948) *** [[Ronald McNair]] (b. 1950) *** [[Ellison Onizuka]] (b. 1946) *** [[Judith Resnik]] (b. 1949) *** [[Dick Scobee]] (b. 1939) *** [[Michael J. Smith (astronaut)|Michael J. Smith]] (b. 1945) ** [[Dorothée Pullinger]] (b. [[1894 in science|1894]]), French-born British production engineer. * April 22 – Dame [[Honor Fell]] (b. [[1900 in science|1900]]), English biologist. * July 6 – [[William Rashkind]] (b. [[1922 in science|1922]]), American [[cardiologist]]. * July 21 – [[Zhang Yuzhe]] (b. [[1902 in science|1902]]), Chinese [[astronomer]]. * October 22 – [[Albert Szent-Györgyi]] (b. [[1893 in science|1893]]), [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]] [[physiologist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]. * October 31 – [[Edward Adelbert Doisy]] (b. [[1893 in science|1893]]), American [[biochemist]], winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. * June 7 – [[Robert S. Mulliken]] (b. [[1896 in science|1896]]), American [[physicist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]. * November 25 – Sir [[Ivan Magill]] (b. [[1888 in science|1888]]), British [[anesthesiologist]].
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