Deaths
- January 3 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (born 1888).
- January 6 - Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (born 1839).
- March 13 - Charles Lapworth, English geologist (born 1842).
- March 26 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon (born 1834).
- March 31 - Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (born 1837).
- April 8 - John Brashear, American astronomer (born 1840 in science).
- April 9 - Moritz Cantor, German historian of mathematics (born 1829).
- April 26 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (born 1887).
- June 20
- Marie Adolphe Carnot, French chemist and mining engineer (born 1839).
- John Grigg, New Zealand astronomer (born 1838).
- August 10 - Ádám Politzer (born 1835), Hungarian otologist.
- August 12 - Hermann Struve, Russian-born astronomer (born 1854).
- August 16 - Norman Lockyer, English astronomer (born 1836).
- August 31 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (born 1832).
- October 17 - Reginald Farrer, English botanist (born 1880).
- November 4 - Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (born 1858).
- December 3 - William de Wiveleslie Abney, English astronomer and photographer (born 1843).
Read more about this topic: 1920 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)