Editing 1988 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* January 11 – [[Isidor Isaac Rabi]] (born 1898), Polish American [[physicist]], winner of [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1944 for invention of the atomic beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of [[atom]]s and [[molecule]]s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IQhaAAAAYAAJ|year=1988|publisher=H.W. Wilson Company|page=649}}</ref>
* January 18 – [[Cataldo Agostinelli]] (born 1894), Italian mathematician<ref>{{cite book|author=Canadian Mathematical Society|title=Notes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egeGAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Canadian Mathematical Society = Société mathématique du Canada|page=21}}</ref> 
* January 21 – [[E. B. Ford]] (born 1901), English [[Ecological genetics|ecological geneticist]] and [[lepidopterist]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmIYAAAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=978-1-55862-050-6|page=13}}</ref>
* February 15 – [[Richard Feynman]] (born 1918), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on [[quantum electrodynamics]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jagdish Mehra|author2=K. A. Milton|title=Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9SmZSN8F164C&pg=PA611|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-850658-4|pages=611}}</ref>
* March 7 – [[Edmund Berkeley]], American computer scientist (born 1909)<ref>{{cite book|author=Society of Actuaries|title=Transactions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LYAUAQAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Printing Department, University of Chicago|isbn=978-0-938959-09-0|page=1196}}</ref>
* March 8 – [[Werner Hartmann (physicist)|Werner Hartmann]], German physicist (b. [[1912]])<ref>Augustine, Dolores L. ''Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990'' (MIT, 2007), pages 178-189</ref>
* April 27 – [[Valery Legasov]] (born 1936), Russian [[nuclear physicist]], known for the investigation of causes of the [[Chernobyl]] disaster and planning the mitigation of its consequences.<ref>{{cite book|title=Man & Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RgrsAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development|page=87}}</ref>
* May 8 – [[Robert A. Heinlein]] (born 1907), American "hard" science fiction author.<ref>{{cite book|author=Harold Bloom|title=Science Fiction Writers of the Golden Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1JsfAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Chelsea House|isbn=978-0-7910-2199-6|page=111}}</ref>
* May 20 – [[Ana Aslan]] (born 1897), Romanian biologist.
* May 27 – [[Ernst Ruska]] (born 1906), German winner of [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for work in electron optics.<ref>{{cite book|author=George Thomas Kurian|title=The Nobel Scientists: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbTaAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Prometheus Books|isbn=978-1-57392-927-1|page=230}}</ref>
* June 9 – [[Karl Kraus (physicist)|Karl Kraus]], German theoretical physicist (b. [[1938 in science|1938]]){{citation needed|date=June 2021}}
* September 1 – [[Luis Walter Alvarez]] (born 1911), American experimental physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for bubble chamber research into particle physics.
* August 6 – [[Illa Martin]], [[dendrologist]], botanist, conservationist and dentist (b. [[1900]])<ref>*HW Schmitz: ''Dr. Illa Martin verstorben''. In: ''Der Niederrhein''. Krefeld, No. 4 1988</ref>
* October 9 – [[Felix Wankel]] (born 1902), German mechanical engineer.
* December 4 – [[Osman Achmatowicz]] (born 1899), Polish chemist 
* December 21 – [[Nikolaas Tinbergen]] (born 1907), Dutch-born [[Ethology|ethologist]], [[ornithologist]], winner of [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson|title=The Development and Integration of Behaviour: Essays in Honour of Robert Hinde|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2E6IC2PhSYC&pg=PA464|date=30 May 1991|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-40709-0|pages=464}}</ref>
* December 30 – [[Dennis H. Klatt]] (born 1938), American pioneer of [[speech synthesis]].