Deaths
- February 11 - Ernest Jones (born 1879), Welsh psychoanalyst
- April 16 - Rosalind Franklin (born 1920), English crystallographer
- August 14 - Frédéric Joliot-Curie (born 1900), French physicist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935)
- August 27 - Ernest Lawrence (born 1901), American physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1932)
- October 2 - Marie Stopes (born 1880), Scottish-born paleobotanist and pioneer of birth control
- December 12 - Milutin Milanković (born 1879), Serbian geophysicist
- December 15 - Wolfgang Pauli (born 1900), Austrian theoretical physicist
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