The year 1968 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- April – First book printed completely using electronic composition, the United States edition of Andrew Garve's thriller The Long Short Cut.[2][3]
- July 18 – The semiconductor chip company Intel is founded by Gordon E. Moore and Robert Noyce in Mountain View, California.
- December 9 – In what becomes retrospectively known as "The Mother of All Demos", Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center demonstrates for the first time the computer mouse, the video conference, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing, the dynamic linker and a collaborative real-time editor using NLS.[4][5][6]
- January 11 – Benjamin List, German organic chemist, recipient of 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- March 3 – Brian Cox, English physicist and science communicator, previously rock keyboardist
- March 9 – Maggie Aderin-Pocock, English space scientist and science educator
- March 16 – David MacMillan, Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- June 30 – Samantha Tross, Guyanese-born British orthopedic surgeon
- September 30 – Bennet Omalu, Nigerian physician, forensic pathologist and neuropathologist
- December 11 – Emmanuelle Charpentier, French biochemist, recipient of 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[15]
- January 6 – Xu Shunshou (born 1917), Chinese aeronautical engineer.
- February 1 – Jacob van der Hoeden (born 1891), Dutch-Israeli veterinary scientist
- February 21 – Howard Florey (born 1898), Australian pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- February 22 – May Smith (born 1879), English experimental psychologist.
- March 27 – Yuri Gagarin (born 1934), Russian cosmonaut, the first man in space.
- April 1 – Lev Davidovich Landau (born 1908), Russian physicist.
- June 21 – Constance Georgina Tardrew (born 1883), South African botanist.[16]
- July 22 – Muthulakshmi Reddi (born 1886), Indian physician and social reformer.
- July 28 – Otto Hahn (born 1879), German chemist, recipient of 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- October 27 – Lise Meitner (born 1878), German physicist, discoverer in 1939, with Otto Hahn, of nuclear fission.[17]
- November 8 – Chika Kuroda (born 1884), Japanese chemist.[18]
DiGeorge, A. M. (1968), Congenital absence of the thymus and its immunologic consequences: concurrence with congenital hypoparathyroidism, vol. IV, White Plains, NY: March of Dimes-Birth Defects Foundation, pp. 116–21
US 3297025, Jacuzzi, Candido, "Hydrotherapy tub", published 1967-01-10, assigned to Jacuzzi Bros. Inc..
Rall, Maureen (2002). Petticoat Pioneers: The History of the Pioneer Women who Lived on the Diamond Fields in the Early Years. Kimberley, South Africa: Kimberley Africana Library. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-62027-613-9.
Bailey Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. London: Routledge. p. 877. ISBN 978-0-41592-040-7.