Deaths
- March 19 – Louis de Broglie (b. 1892), French physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1929).
- March 26 – Gwyn Macfarlane (b. 1907), British hematologist.
- October 13 – Walter Houser Brattain (b. 1902), American physicist.
- October 20 – Andrey Kolmogorov (b. 1903), Russian mathematician.
- December 2 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (b. 1914), Belarusian astrophysicist.
- December 7 – Helen Porter (b. 1899), English plant physiologist.
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