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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
Chemistry
Mathematics
Bieberbach conjecture.
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Sierpinski carpet
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Medicine
1 January – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled.
16 October – contraceptives.
[6] This same year, she publishes
What Every Girl Should Know , providing information about such topics as
menstruation and sexuality in adolescents.
spinal fluid protein production, but normal cell count.
[7]
brain damage, known as "Bleuler's psycho syndrome".
[8]
Bayer AG
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Physics
Psychology
Technology
Events
Births
9 January – Peter Twinn , mathematician and World War II code-breaker (died 2004)[13]
10 January – .
25 January – cryptanalyst
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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 – cardiologist
.
4 October – .
19 October – immunologist
, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
16 November – Christopher Strachey (died 1975 ), English computer scientist.
9 December – dental hygiene
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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.
Deaths
12 February – Richard Dedekind (born 1831 ), German mathematician .
19 February – Ernst Mach (born 1838 ), Austrian-born physicist .
11 May
15 July – 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
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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.
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Who Named It?
Whonamedit?
. Retrieved 1 November 2011 .
^ Ghosh, Pallab (11 February 2016). "Einstein's gravitational waves 'seen' from black holes" . BBC News . Retrieved 11 February 2016 .
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. Retrieved 16 August 2011 .
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^ Dan van der Vat , "Obituary: Peter Twinn", The Guardian , 20 November 2004