Editing 1904 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 21 – [[Edris Rice-Wray Carson]] (died [[1990 in science|1990]]), American-born [[physician]], pioneer in [[family planning]].
* January 26 – [[Ancel Keys]] (died [[2004 in science|2004]]), American [[nutritionist]].
* March 13 – [[René Dumont]] (died [[2001 in science|2001]]), French [[agronomist]].
* March 20 – [[B. F. Skinner]] (died [[1990 in science|1990]]), American behavioral [[psychologist]].
* April 11 – [[Arthur Mourant]] (died [[1994 in science|1994]]), [[Jersey|Jersiais]] [[hematologist]].
* April 22 – [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] (died [[1967 in science|1967]]), American [[physicist]].
* June 3 – [[Charles R. Drew]] (died [[1950 in science|1950]]), African American physician, pioneer in [[blood transfusion]].
* July 5 – [[Ernst Mayr]] (died [[2005 in science|2005]]), German-born [[evolutionary biologist]].
* August 5 – [[Kenneth V. Thimann]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), English-American [[plant physiologist]] and [[microbiologist]] known for his studies of [[plant hormones]].
* August 17 – [[Cornelis Simon Meijer]] (died [[1974 in science|1974]]), [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[mathematician]].
* August 28 – [[Secondo Campini]] (died [[1980 in science|1980]]), Italian [[Jet engine|jet]] pioneer.
* August 29 – [[Werner Forssmann]] (died [[1979 in science|1979]]), German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* November 11 – [[J. H. C. Whitehead]] (died [[1960 in science|1960]]), British [[mathematician]].
* [[Sven Sømme]] (died [[1961 in science|1961]]), [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] [[ichthyologist]] and resistance worker.