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

Archaeology

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

Chemistry

Czech chemist Jaroslav Heyrovský invented polarographic methods of chemical analysis.

Medicine

• First successful insulin treatment of diabetes.

Physics

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

Technology

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

Awards

• Nobel Prize
  • Physics - Niels Bohr
  • Chemistry - Francis William Aston
  • Physiology or Medicine - Archibald Vivian Hill and Otto Fritz Meyerhof

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.