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The year 1916 in science and technology included many significant events, some of which are listed below.

1 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.

2 Physics

• Albert Einstein shows that the field equations of general relativity admit wavelike solutions
• Karl Schwarzschild solves the Einstein vacuum field equation s for unchargedCharge is a word with many different meanings. Science In science, the concept of charge is derived from the observation of conserved quantum numbers. Various charge-like quantum numbers have been introduced by theories of particle physics, e. electric ch spherically-symmetric non-rotating systems,

3 Births

• January 10January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 355 days remaining (356 in leap years). Events 49 BC Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon which signaled civil war. 1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo. 1776 Thomas Paine publishes - Sune K. Bergström (d. 2004See also Other events of 2004 List of years in science. 2003 in science 2004 in science 2005 in science. The year 2004 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below. Anthropology October 27 Remains of a previously unknown), SwedishThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf biochemist, winner of the 1982Events January 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 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du 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.