Deaths
- February 8
- John von Neumann (born 1903), mathematician.
- Walther Bothe (born 1891), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1954.
- February 18 - Henry Norris Russell (born 1877), astronomer.
- May 7 - Wilhelm Filchner (born 1877), explorer.
- July 3 - Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (born 1886), physicist.
- August 16 - Irving Langmuir (born 1881), chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932.
- August 21 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (born 1888), meteorologist and oceanographer.
- October 26 - Gerty Cori (born 1896), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947.
- November 3 - Wilhelm Reich (born 1897), psychoanalyst.
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