1922 in science (original) (raw)

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](#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