1918 in Science - Births

Births

• January 23 - Gertrude B. Elion (died 1999), pharmacologist, Nobel laureate.
• January 27 - Antonín Mrkos (died 1996), astronomer.
• March 16 - Frederick Reines (died 1998), physicist.
• April 4 - Joseph Ashbrook (died 1980), astronomer.
• April 25 - Gérard de Vaucouleurs (died 1995), astronomer.
• May 11 - Richard Feynman (died 1988), physicist, Nobel laureate.
• July 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse (died 2003), physicist.
• August 13 - Frederick Sanger, molecular biologist.
• August 29 - John Herivel (died 2011), cryptanalyst and science historian.
• September 27 - Martin Ryle (died 1984), astronomer.
• October 4 - Adrian Kantrowitz (died 2008), cardiac surgeon.
• November 10 - Ernst Otto Fischer (died 2007), chemist, Nobel laureate.
• November 19 - Hendrik C. van de Hulst (died 2000), astronomer.
• December 25 - Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova (died 2001), astronomer.
• December - John R.F. Jeffreys (died 1944), mathematician and cryptanalysist.