Deaths
- February 2 - Oswald Avery (born 1877), Canadian American bacteriologist.
- March 11 - Sir Alexander Fleming (born 1881), British bacteriologist, winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- April 10 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ (born 1881), French-born paleontologist and philosopher.
- April 18 - Albert Einstein (born 1879), German-born winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- August 11 - Robert W. Wood (born 1868), American optical physicist.
- August 12 - James B. Sumner (born 1887), American winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- November 25 - Sir Arthur Tansley (born 1871), English botanist and ecologist.
- December 13 - Antonio Egas Moniz (born 1874), Portuguese neurologist, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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