Deaths
- January 30 – John Bardeen (b. 1908), American physicist, co-inventor of the transistor and twice winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- February 23 – Sir Charles Illingworth (b. 1899), British surgeon.
- March 1 – Edwin H. Land (b. 1909), American inventor of the Land Camera.
- June 5 – Min Chueh Chang (b. 1908), Chinese American embryologist.
Read more about this topic: 1991 In Science
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