1916 in science#Medicine

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The year 1916 involved a number of significant events in science and technology, some of which are listed below.

Astronomy

Chemistry

Mathematics

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 – Margaret Sanger opens a family planning and birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the first of its kind in the United States.{{cite book|title=The selected papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1: The Woman Rebel, 1900–1928|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2003|page=199}}{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Jean H.|year=2011|title=Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion|publisher=Macmillan|page=115}} Nine days later, she is arrested for breaking a New York state law prohibiting distribution of contraceptives.{{cite book|last=Engelman|first=Peter C.|year=2011|title=A History of the Birth Control Movement in America|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-36509-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofbirthco0000enge/page/100 101]}}{{void|comment|Fabrickator|intentionally specifying page as 100, initially book opens in 2-page mode, user may switch to 1-page mode to view more easily but must specify 2-page mode to be able to switch to 2-page mode and have visibility to page 101 without being logged in}} This same year, she publishes What Every Girl Should Know, providing information about such topics as menstruation and sexuality in adolescents.
  • Georges Guillain, Jean Alexandre Barré and André Strohl diagnose two soldiers with Guillain–Barré syndrome of the peripheral nervous system and describe the key diagnostic abnormality of increased spinal fluid protein production, but normal cell count.{{WhoNamedIt2|synd|1766|Guillain–Barré–Strohl syndrome}} and {{WhoNamedIt|synd|1508|Miller Fisher's syndrome}}
  • Eugen Bleuler publishes his Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie, including a definition of complexes arising from diffuse brain damage, known as "Bleuler's psycho syndrome".{{cite web|title=Eugen Bleuler|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1294.html|work=Whonamedit?|accessdate=2011-11-01}}
  • Medication Suramin against African sleeping sickness and river blindness is first made by German company Bayer AG.

Physics

  • Albert Einstein publishes "[https://web.archive.org/web/20060829045130/http://www.alberteinstein.info/gallery/gtext3.html Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie]" on general relativity in Annalen der Physik 49 and shows that the field equations of general relativity admit wavelike solutions. This will be demonstrated in 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35524440|title=Einstein's gravitational waves 'seen' from black holes|first=Pallab|last=Ghosh|authorlink=Pallab Ghosh|publisher=BBC News|date=2016-02-11|accessdate=2016-02-11}}
  • Karl Schwarzschild solves the Einstein vacuum field equations for uncharged spherically symmetric non-rotating systems and calculates Schwarzschild radius.

Psychology

Technology

  • February – Stahlhelm steel helmet first issued to German soldiers.
  • 18 April – Capt. Peter Nissen completes the prototype Nissen hut.{{cite book|last=McCosh|first=Fred|year=1997|title=Nissen of the Huts: a biography of Lt Col. Peter Nissen, DSO|location=Bourne End|publisher=BD Publishing|isbn=0-9525799-1-X}}
  • 11 September – The almost-completed Quebec Bridge collapses for the second time.{{cite book|last=Middleton|first=William D.|title=The Bridge at Québec|year=2001|location=Bloomington|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-33761-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bridgeatquebec0000midd/page/158 158]|url=https://archive.org/details/bridgeatquebec0000midd|url-access=registration|accessdate=2011-08-16}}

Events

  • Chemist Chika Kuroda becomes the first woman in Japan to receive a Bachelor of Science degree.{{cite book|last=Haines|first=Catharine M. C.|title=International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950|url=https://archive.org/details/internationalwom00hain|url-access=registration|year=2001|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-090-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/internationalwom00hain/page/164 164]}}

Births

Deaths

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