Editing 1916 in science (section)

==Chemistry==
* [[Gilbert N. Lewis]] and [[Irving Langmuir]] formulate an electron shell model of [[chemical bond]]ing.<ref>{{cite journal|year=1916|url=http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/bond/papers/corr216.3-lewispub-19160400.html|title=The Atom and the Molecule|first=Gilbert N.|last=Lewis|journal=[[Journal of the American Chemical Society]]|volume=38|pages=762–85|doi=10.1021/ja02261a002| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720024330/http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/bond/papers/corr216.3-lewispub-19160400.html| archivedate=20 July 2011 | url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* The [[Born–Haber cycle]], an approach to analyze reaction energies, is developed by German scientists [[Max Born]] and [[Fritz Haber]].
* [[Sydney Chapman (astronomer)|Sydney Chapman]] and [[David Enskog]] systematically develop a [[kinetic theory of gases]].
* [[Jan Czochralski]] invents a method for growing single crystals of metals.