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1922 in science

1922 in science and technology

See also: 1921 in science, other events of 1922, 1923 in science and the list of 'years in science'.

Table of contents

1 Archaeology 2 Medicine 3 Physics 4 Technology 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Births 7 Deaths

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, philosopher of science
• November 8 - Christiaan Barnard, future surgeon

Deaths

• January 5 - Ernest Shackleton, explorer
• June 18 - Jacobus Kapteyn, astronomer
• August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell, inventor

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