1922 in science
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The year 1922 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Archaeology
- British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt.
Medicine
- First successful insulin treatment of diabetes.
Physics
- Arthur Compton studies X-ray photon scattering by electrons
- Otto Stern and Walter Gerlach show "space quantization"
Technology
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
Nobel Prizes
- Niels Bohr is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
- Francis William Aston is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Archibald Vivian Hill and Otto Fritz Meyerhof are awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine
Births
- July 18 - Thomas Kuhn (d. 1996), philosopher of science
- November 8 - Christiaan Barnard (d. 2001), surgeon.
Deaths
- January 5 - Ernest Shackleton (b. 1874), explorer.
- January 22 - Camille Jordan (b. 1838), mathematician.
- May 26 - Ernest Solvay, (b. 1838) chemist.
- June 18 - Jacobus Kapteyn (b. 1851), astronomer.
- August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell (b. 1847), inventor.