Editing 1884 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 26 – [[Edward Sapir]] (died [[1939 in science|1939]]), Pomeranian-born anthropological linguist.
* January 28
** [[Auguste Piccard]] (died [[1962 in science|1962]]), [[Swiss (people)|Swiss]] [[physicist]] and [[List of explorers|explorer]].
** [[Jean Piccard]] (died [[1963 in science|1963]]), Swiss-born [[chemist]] and explorer.
* March 24 – [[Chika Kuroda]] (died [[1968 in science|1968]]), Japanese chemist.
* July 2 – [[Alfons Maria Jakob]] (died [[1931 in science|1931]]), German [[neuropathologist]].
* July 4 – [[Eleanor Williams]] (died [[1963 in science|1963]]), [[Australia]]n [[bacteriologist]] and [[serologist]].
* February 23 – [[Casimir Funk]] (died [[1967 in science|1967]]), [[Polish people|Polish]] [[biochemist]], coiner of the term [[vitamin]].
* August 5 – [[Ludwik Hirszfeld]] (died [[1954 in science|1954]]), Polish [[microbiologist]] and [[Serology|serologist]].
* August 31 – [[George Sarton]] (died [[1956 in science|1956]]), [[Flemish people|Flemish]] historian of science.
* November 8 – [[Hermann Rorschach]] (died [[1922 in science|1922]]), Swiss [[psychiatrist]].