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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 Bond ing

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

January 10 - Sune K. Bergström (d. 2004 ), Swedish Biochemist , winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize For Medicine .

March 4 - Hans Eysenck (d. 1997 ), Psychologist .

April 30 - Claude E. Shannon (d. 2001 ), Mathematician .

June 8 - Francis Crick (d. 2004 ), American Nobelaureate In Physiology for discovering the Double Helix structure for DNA .

June 11 - Alexander Prochorow (d. 2002 ), Cosmonaut .

December 15 - Maurice Wilkins (d. 2004 ), Nobelaureate In Physiology for discovering the Double Helix structure for DNA using X-ray diffraction.

DEATHS

February 12 - Richard Dedekind (b. 1831 ), Mathematician .

February 19 - Ernst Mach (b. 1838 ), Physicist .

July 23 - Sir William Ramsay (b. 1852 ), Chemist and Nobel Prize winner

November 13 - Percival Lowell (b. 1855 ), Astronomer .

November 24 - Hiram Maxim (b. 1840 ), inventor of the Machine Gun .