The year 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... 1916 in For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... science and Technology ( Gr. ... technology included many significant events, some of which are listed below.

Chemistry

• Lewis in the Berkeley Lab Gilbert Newton Lewis (October 23, 1875-March 23, 1946) was a famous physical chemist. ... Gilbert Lewis and Irving Langmuir -- chemist and physicist Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York - August 16, 1957 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts) was an American chemist and physicist. ... Irving Langmuir formulate an electron shell model of In chemistry, a chemical bond is the force which holds together atoms in molecules or crystals. ... chemical bonding
• Sydney Chapman (January 29, 1888 – June 16, 1970) was a British astronomer and geophysicist. ... Sydney Chapman and David Enskog systematically develop a The kinetic theory of gases is a theory that explains the macroscopic properties of gases by consideration of their composition at a molecular level. ... kinetic theory of gases
• Jan Czochralski (pronounced choh-KRAL-skee) (October 23, 1885 - April 22, 1953) was a Polish chemist who discovered the Czochralski process, which is used to grow single crystals and is used in the production of semiconductor wafers. ... Jan Czochralski invents a method for growing single crystals of metals.

Physics

• For other uses of the name Einstein, please see Einstein (disambiguation) Portrait of Albert Einstein taken by Yousuf Karsh on February 11, 1948 Albert Einstein ( March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. ... Albert Einstein shows that the field equations of general relativity admit wavelike solutions
• Karl Schwarzschild (October 9, 1873 - May 11, 1916) was a noted German Jewish physicist and astronomer, father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild. ... Karl Schwarzschild solves the Einstein The article on the vacuum cleaner is located elsewhere. ... vacuum field equations for Charge is a word with many different meanings. ... uncharged spherically-symmetric non-rotating systems,

Births

• January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... January 10 - Sune K. Bergström (d. See also: Other events of 2004 List of years in science ... ... 2004), The Kingdom of Sweden ( Swedish: Konungariket Sverige  listen?) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. ... Swedish Biochemistry is the chemistry of life. ... biochemist, winner of the 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January-February January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British... 1982 List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... Nobel Prize for Medicine.
• March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... March 4 - Hans Jurgen Eysenck (March 4, 1916 - September 4, 1997) was a German psychologist. ... Hans Eysenck (d. See also: Other events of 1997 List of years in science ... ... 1997), A psychologist is a researcher and/or a practitioner of psychology. ... psychologist.
• April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years). ... April 30 - Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 _ February 24, 2001) has been called the father of information theory, and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. ... Claude E. Shannon (d. See also: Other events of 2001 List of years in science ... ... 2001), A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... mathematician.
• June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... June 8 - Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM (June 8, 1916 – July 28, 2004) was one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. ... Francis Crick (d. See also: Other events of 2004 List of years in science ... ... 2004), The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia — is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... American List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... Nobelaureate in Physiology for discovering the The Double-Helix are an alien race in the Wing Commander science fiction series. ... double helix structure for DNA replication Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid which is capable of carrying genetic instructions for the biological development of all cellular forms of life and many viruses. ... DNA.
• June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... June 11 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров) (July 11, 1916 – January 8, 2002) was an Australian-Russian physicist. ... Alexander Prochorow (d. See also: Other events of 2002 List of years in science ... ... 2002), U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. ... cosmonaut.
• December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... December 15 - Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (December 15, 1916 – October 5, 2004) was a physicist who mainly worked in the field of X-rays. ... Maurice Wilkins (d. See also: Other events of 2004 List of years in science ... ... 2004), List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... Nobelaureate in Physiology for discovering the The Double-Helix are an alien race in the Wing Commander science fiction series. ... double helix structure for DNA replication Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid which is capable of carrying genetic instructions for the biological development of all cellular forms of life and many viruses. ... DNA using In the NATO phonetic alphabet, X-ray represents the letter X. An X-ray picture (radiograph) taken by Röntgen An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength approximately in the range of 5 pm to 10 nanometers (corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz... X-ray diffraction.

Deaths

• February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... February 12 - Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (October 6, 1831 - February 12, 1916) was a German mathematician and Ernst Eduard Kummers closest follower in arithmetic. ... Richard Dedekind (b. See also: Other events of 1831 List of years in science ... ... 1831), A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... mathematician.
• February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... February 19 - Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher. ... Ernst Mach (b. See also: Other events of 1838 List of years in science ... ... 1838), The word physicist should not be confused with physician, which means medical doctor. ... physicist.
• July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... July 23 - Categories: People stubs | 1852 births | 1916 deaths | Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners | Discoverer of a chemical element ... Sir William Ramsay (b. See also: Other events of 1852 List of years in science ... ... 1852), A chemist is a scientist who specializes in chemistry. ... chemist and The Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell) are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. ... Nobel prize winner
• November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... November 13 - Percival observing Mars from the Lowell Observatory. ... Percival Lowell (b. See also: Other events of 1855 List of years in science ... ... 1855), Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... astronomer.
• November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... November 24 - Hiram S. Maxim Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (February 4, 1840 - November 24, 1916) was the inventor of the Maxim Gun in 1884, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun. ... Hiram Maxim (b. See also: Other events of 1840 List of years in science ... ... 1840), inventor of the A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ... machine gun.