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1916 in science
1916 in science and technology
See also: 1915 in science, other events of 1916, 1917 in science and the list of years in science.
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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 equation s for uncharged spherically-symmetric non-rotating systems,
Births
- February 12 - Richard Dedekind, future mathematician
- March 4 - Hans Eysenck, future psychologist
- June 8 - Francis Crick, future biologist
Deaths
- July 23 - Sir William Ramsay, chemist and Nobel prize winner
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