Great list! Although I would like there to be also a few ones for narrower fields. I mean, there are entire fields of science that different people here are familiar with, we could rec our own favourites (or you could, 'cause I seem to be buried by XIX century stuff.)
I mean something similar to a fact post, but without a single focus.
As another year comes around, and our solstice plans come to a head I want to review this year's great progress in science to follow on from last year's great review.
The general criteria is: World changing science, not politics. That means a lot of space discoveries, a lot of technology, some groundbreaking biology, and sometimes new chemical materials. There really are too many to list briefly.
With that in mind, below is the list:
Things that spring to mind when you ask people:
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_science
Note: the whole thing is worth reading - I cherry picked a few really cool ones.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016:
Notable deaths:
Nobel prizes:
100 years ago (1916):
Nobel Prizes in 1916:
Other:
Meta: this took in the order of 3+ hours to write over several weeks.
Cross posted to Lesswrong here.