Editing 1916 in science (section)

==Births==
* 9 January – [[Peter Twinn]], mathematician and World War II code-breaker (died 2004)<ref>[[Dan van der Vat]], "Obituary: Peter Twinn", ''[[The Guardian]]'', 20 November 2004</ref>
* 10 January – [[Sune K. Bergström]] (died [[2004 in science|2004]]), [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[biochemist]], winner of the 1982 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].
* 25 January – [[John R. F. Jeffreys]] (died [[1944 in science|1944]]), British [[mathematician]] and [[cryptanalyst]].
* 4 March – [[Hans Eysenck]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), German-born [[psychologist]].
* 26 March – [[Christian B. Anfinsen]] (died [[1995 in science|1995]]), American biochemist, winner of the 1972 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].
* 14 April – [[Lawrence Hogben]] (died [[2015 in science|2015]]), New Zealand [[meteorologist]].
* 22 April – [[Ruth A. M. Schmidt]] (died [[2014 in science|2014]]), American [[geologist]].
* 30 April – [[Claude Shannon]] (died [[2001 in science|2001]]), American mathematician, "father of [[information theory]]".
* 6 May – [[Robert H. Dicke]] (died [[1997 in science|1997]]), American [[physicist]].
* 4 June – [[Robert F. Furchgott]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), American biochemist, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* 8 June – [[Francis Crick]] (died [[2004 in science|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 in science|2002]]), Australian-born [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] Russian physicist.
* 15 June – [[Herbert A. Simon]] (died [[2001 in science|2001]]), American [[polymath]], winner of the 1978 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]].
* 1 July – [[Iosif Shklovsky]] (died [[1985 in science|1985]]), [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] [[Astrophysics|astrophysicist]].
* 11 July – [[Kitty Joyner]] (died [[1993 in science|1993]]), American electrical engineer.
* 25 August – [[Frederick Chapman Robbins]] (died [[2003 in science|2003]]), American pediatrician and virologist, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* 30 September – [[Richard K. Guy]] (died [[2020 in science|2020]]), English mathematician.
* 3 October – [[Frank Pantridge]] (died [[2004 in science|2004]]), [[Northern Ireland]] [[cardiologist]].
* 4 October – [[Vitaly Ginzburg]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), Soviet Russian [[Theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]], astrophysicist, one of the fathers of the Soviet [[hydrogen bomb]], winner of the 2003 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]], member of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences]].
* 19 October – [[Jean Dausset]] (died [[2009 in science|2009]]), French [[immunologist]], winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* 16 November – [[Christopher Strachey]] (died [[1975 in science|1975]]), English computer scientist.
* 9 December – [[Esther Wilkins]] (died [[2016 in science|2016]]), pioneer of [[dental hygiene]].
* 15 December – [[Maurice Wilkins]] (died [[2004 in science|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 (physicist)|John Duckworth]] (died [[2015 in science|2015]]), British physicist.