1922 in science

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The year 1922 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Contents 1 Archaeology 2 Chemistry 3 Medicine 4 Physics 5 Technology 6 Nobel prizes 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Archaeology

• British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt.

[edit] Chemistry

Czech chemist Jaroslav Heyrovský invented polarographic methods of chemical analysis.

[edit] Medicine

• First successful insulin treatment of diabetes.

[edit] Physics

• Arthur Compton studies X-ray photon scattering by electrons
• Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach show "space quantization"

[edit] Technology

• The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

[edit] 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

[edit] Births

• July 18 - Thomas Kuhn (d. 1996), philosopher of science
• November 8 - Christiaan Barnard (d. 2001), surgeon.

[edit] 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.