Births
- January 15 - Edward Teller (died 2003), Hungarian-born physicist, inventor of the hydrogen bomb.
- January 18 - Jacob Bronowski (died 1974), Polish-born scientific polymath.
- January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau (died 1968), Russian physicist.
- February 11 - Vivian Fuchs (died 1999), English geologist and explorer.
- May 23 - John Bardeen (died 1991), American physicist, co-inventor of the transistor. Only physicist to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
- September 2 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (died 1983), Russian astronomer and astrophysicist.
- September 6 - Louis Essen (died 1997), English physicist, co-developer of the first practical atomic clock.
- October 10 - Min Chueh Chang (died 1991), Chinese-born embryologist.
- October 21 - Elsie Widdowson (died 2000), English nutritionist.
- November 4 - Józef Rotblat (died 2005), Polish-born physicist.
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