in science

The year 1916 in science and technology included many significant events, some of which are listed below.

Chemistry

• Gilbert Lewis and Irving Langmuir formulate an electron shell model of chemical bonding
• Sydney Chapman and David Enskog systematically develop a kinetic theory of gases
• Jan Czochralski invents a method for growing single crystals of metals.

Physics

• Albert Einstein shows that the field equations of general relativity admit wavelike solutions
• Karl Schwarzschild solves the Einstein vacuum field equations for uncharged spherically-symmetric non-rotating systems,

Births

• January 10 - Sune K. Bergström († 2004), Swedish biochemist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
• February 12 - Richard Dedekind, future mathematician.
• March 4 - Hans Eysenck, future psychologist.
• April 30 - Claude E. Shannon († 2001), mathematician.
• June 8 - Francis Crick († 2004), American Nobelaureate in Physiology for discovering the double helix structure for DNA.
• June 11 - Alexander Prochorow († 2002), cosmonaut.
• December 15 - Maurice Wilkins († 2004), Nobelaureate in Physiology for discovering the double helix structure for DNA using X-ray diffraction.

Deaths

• July 23 - Sir William Ramsay, chemist and Nobel prize winner

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