Editing 1932 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 16 – [[Dian Fossey]] (murdered [[1985 in science|1985]]), [[Americans|American]] [[primatologist]].
* February 7 – [[Alfred Worden]] (died [[2020 in science|2020]]), American [[astronaut]].
* February 10 – [[Robert Taylor (computer scientist)|Robert Taylor]] (died [[2017 in science|2017]]), American computer scientist.
* March 10 – [[Udupi Ramachandra Rao]] (died 2017), [[Indian people|Indian]] [[space scientist]].
* March 14 – [[Joseph Bryan Nelson]] (died [[2015 in science|2015]]), British [[ornithologist]].
* March 15 – [[Alan Bean]] (died [[2018 in science|2018]]), American astronaut.
* March 21 – [[Walter Gilbert]], American chemist and [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel]] laureate
* March 24 – [[Lodewijk van den Berg]] (died [[2022 in science|2022]]), Dutch-born American chemical engineer and astronaut
* April 26 – [[Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith]] (died [[2000 in science|2000]]), English-born [[biochemist]], recipient of the 1993 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].
* May 22 – [[Robert Spitzer (psychiatrist)|Robert Spitzer]] (died 2015), American [[psychiatrist]].
* July 10 – [[Ioan Pușcaș]] (died 2015), Romanian gastroenterologist.
* July 31 – [[John Searle]], American philosopher of the mind and language.
* August 4 – [[Frances E. Allen]] (died 2020), American computer scientist, [[Turing Award]] winner.
* August 15 – [[Robert L. Forward]] (died [[2002 in science|2002]]), American [[science fiction]] author and [[physicist]].
* August 18 – [[Luc Montagnier]] (died [[2022 in science|2022]]), French [[virology|virologist]] and joint recipient of the 2008 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for the discovery of the [[human immunodeficiency virus]] (HIV). 
* September 18 – [[Nikolai Rukavishnikov]] (died 2002), Russian [[Astronaut|cosmonaut]].
* September 29 – [[Rainer Weiss]], German-born American physicist, joint recipient of the 2017 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for detection of [[gravitational wave]]s.
* October 1 – [[Biswa Ranjan Nag]] (died [[2004 in science|2004]]), Indian physicist.
* October 3 – [[Terence English]], [[South Africa]]n-born [[cardiac surgeon]].
* October 13 – [[John G. Thompson]], American [[mathematician]].
* November 6 – [[François Englert]], Belgian [[theoretical physicist]], joint recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of the [[Higgs mechanism]].
* December 15 – [[John Meurig Thomas]] (died [[2020 in science|2020]]), [[Welsh people|Welsh]] physical chemist.