Editing 1916 in science (section)

==Deaths==
* 12 February – [[Richard Dedekind]] (born [[1831 in science|1831]]), German [[mathematician]].
* 19 February – [[Ernst Mach]] (born [[1838 in science|1838]]), Austrian-born [[physicist]].
* 11 May
** [[Karl Schwarzschild]] (born [[1873 in science|1873]]), German [[astronomer]] and physicist.
** [[Nadezhda Ziber-Shumova]] (born [[1856 in science|1856]]), Russian biochemist.
* 15 July – [[Élie Metchnikoff]] (born [[1845 in science|1845]]), Russian [[zoologist]] and [[immunologist]], winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* 23 July – Sir [[William Ramsay]] (born [[1852 in science|1852]]), Scottish-born [[chemist]], winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
* September – [[Anton Köllisch]] (born [[1888 in science|1888]]), German chemist noted for synthesising [[MDMA]]
* 14 September – [[Pierre Duhem]] (born [[1861 in science|1861]]), French [[Philosophy of science|philosopher of science]].
* 29 September – [[Albert John Cook]] (born [[1842 in science|1842]]), American entomologist and zoologist.
* 10 November – [[Walter Sutton]] (born [[1877 in science|1877]]), American [[geneticist]] and [[surgeon]].
* 12 November – [[Percival Lowell]] (born [[1855 in science|1855]]), American [[astronomer]].
* 24 November – [[Hiram Maxim]] (born [[1840 in science|1840]]), American inventor of the [[machine gun]].
* 31 December – [[Alice Ball]] (born [[1892 in science|1892]]), African-American chemist.