1922 in science
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The year 1922 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[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] Awards
[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.
