1914 in Science - Births

Births

• February 5 - Alan Hodgkin (died 1998), English physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1963)
• February 22 - Renato Dulbecco (died 2012), Italian-born virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975)
• March 8 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (died 1987), Russian astrophysicist.
• May 19 - Max Perutz (died 2002), Austrian-born biologist.
• June 4 - Alec Skempton (died 2001), English pioneer of soil science and engineering historian.
• October 6 - Thor Heyerdahl (died 2002), Norwegian ethnographer and explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition.
• October 14 - Raymond Davis Jr. (died 2006), American chemist and physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2002).
• October 21 - Martin Gardner (died 2010), American writer on recreational mathematics.
• October 28 - Jonas Salk (died 1995), American medical researcher.