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Overview of the events of 1916 in science
The year 1916 involved a number of significant events in science and technology , some of which are listed below.
Astronomy [ edit ] Chemistry [ edit ] Mathematics [ edit ] Medicine [ edit ] Physics [ edit ] Psychology [ edit ] Technology [ edit ] 9 January – Peter Twinn , mathematician and World War II code-breaker (died 2004)[13]
10 January – Sune K. Bergström (died 2004 ), Swedish biochemist , winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
25 January – John R. F. Jeffreys (died 1944 ), British mathematician and cryptanalyst .
4 March – Hans Eysenck (died 1997 ), German-born psychologist .
26 March – Christian B. Anfinsen (died 1995 ), American biochemist, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
14 April – Lawrence Hogben (died 2015 ), New Zealand meteorologist .
22 April – Ruth A. M. Schmidt (died 2014 ), American geologist .
30 April – Claude Shannon (died 2001 ), American mathematician, "father of information theory ".
6 May – Robert H. Dicke (died 1997 ), American physicist .
4 June – Robert F. Furchgott (died 2009 ), American biochemist, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
8 June – Francis Crick (died 2004 ), English-born molecular biologist, co-discoverer of the nucleic acid double helix structure in 1953, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
11 June – Alexander Prokhorov (died 2002 ), Australian-born Soviet Russian physicist.
15 June – Herbert A. Simon (died 2001 ), American polymath , winner of the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences .
1 July – Iosif Shklovsky (died 1985 ), Ukrainian astrophysicist .
11 July – Kitty Joyner (died 1993 ), American electrical engineer.
25 August – Frederick Chapman Robbins (died 2003 ), American pediatrician and virologist, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
30 September – Richard K. Guy (died 2020 ), English mathematician.
3 October – Frank Pantridge (died 2004 ), Northern Ireland cardiologist .
4 October – Vitaly Ginzburg (died 2009 ), Soviet Russian theoretical physicist , astrophysicist, one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb , winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics , member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences .
19 October – Jean Dausset (died 2009 ), French immunologist , winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
16 November – Christopher Strachey (died 1975 ), English computer scientist.
9 December – Esther Wilkins (died 2016 ), pioneer of dental hygiene .
15 December – Maurice Wilkins (died 2004 ), New Zealand-born English molecular biologist, co-discoverer of the nucleic acid double helix structure in 1953 using X-ray diffraction, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
27 December – John Duckworth (died 2015 ), British physicist. 12 February – Richard Dedekind (born 1831 ), German mathematician .
19 February – Ernst Mach (born 1838 ), Austrian-born physicist .
11 May
15 July – Élie Metchnikoff (born 1845 ), Russian zoologist and immunologist , winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
23 July – Sir William Ramsay (born 1852 ), Scottish-born chemist , winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
September – Anton Köllisch (born 1888 ), German chemist noted for synthesising MDMA
14 September – Pierre Duhem (born 1861 ), French philosopher of science .
29 September – Albert John Cook (born 1842 ), American entomologist and zoologist.
10 November – Walter Sutton (born 1877 ), American geneticist and surgeon .
12 November – Percival Lowell (born 1855 ), American astronomer .
24 November – Hiram Maxim (born 1840 ), American inventor of the machine gun .
31 December – Alice Ball (born 1892 ), African-American chemist. References [ edit ]
^ Shapley, Harlow (1916). "The variations in spectral type of twenty Cepheid variables" . The Astrophysical Journal 44 : 273–91. Bibcode :1916ApJ....44..273S . doi :10.1086/142295 ^ Lewis, Gilbert N. (1916). "The Atom and the Molecule" . Journal of the American Chemical Society 38 : 762–85. doi :10.1021/ja02261a002 . Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. ^ Bieberbach, L. (1916). "Über die Koeffizienten derjenigen Potenzreihen, welche eine schlichte Abbildung des Einheitskreises vermitteln". Sitzungsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Phys-Math. Kl. : 940–955. ^ The selected papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1 : The Woman Rebel, 1900–1928 . University of Illinois Press. 2003. p. 199.^ Baker, Jean H. (2011). Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion . Macmillan. p. 115. ^ Engelman, Peter C. (2011). A History of the Birth Control Movement in America . ABC-CLIO. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-313-36509-6 ^ Guillain–Barré–Strohl syndrome Miller Fisher's syndrome Who Named It? ^ "Eugen Bleuler" . Whonamedit? . Retrieved 1 November 2011 .^ Ghosh, Pallab (11 February 2016). "Einstein's gravitational waves 'seen' from black holes" . BBC News . Retrieved 11 February 2016 .^ McCosh, Fred (1997). Nissen of the Huts: a biography of Lt Col. Peter Nissen, DSO . Bourne End: BD Publishing. ISBN 0-9525799-1-X ^ Middleton, William D. (2001). The Bridge at Québec 158 . ISBN 0-253-33761-5 . Retrieved 16 August 2011 . ^ Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 164 . ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1 ^ Dan van der Vat , "Obituary: Peter Twinn", The Guardian
