Deaths
- January 5 – Harold Urey (b. 1893), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- March 9 – Max Delbrück (b. 1906), German biologist
- November 22 – Hans Krebs (b. 1900), German medical doctor and biochemist; discoverer of the citric acid cycle
- December 6 – Harry Harlow (b. 1905), American psychologist
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