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.

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

• 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