The year1922 inscience andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.

• November 4 – British archaeologistHoward Carter and his men find the entrance to KingTutankhamen's tomb in theValley of the Kings ofEgypt.

• August – TheCalifornia grizzly bear is hunted to extinction.
• Last known wildBarbary lion (P. l. leo) shot in theAtlas Mountains ofMorocco.^[1]
• TheAmur tiger becomes extinct inSouth Korea.^[2]
• H. J. Muller sets out the basic properties ofgeneticheredity.^[3][4]

• June 20 –Degesch applies topatent thecyanide-basedinsecticideZyklon B (credited to Walter Heerdt) in Germany.^[5]
• Vitamin E is discovered byHerbert McLean Evans and Katharine Scott Bishop at theUniversity of California, Berkeley^[6] andVitamin D byElmer McCollum and others.
• Czech chemistJaroslav Heyrovský inventspolarographic methods of chemical analysis.
• German chemistHermann Staudinger proposes what he will come to callmacromolecules.^[7]

• Bronisław Malinowski's influentialethnological textArgonauts of the Western Pacific is published.

• First publication ofLudwig Wittgenstein'sTractatus Logico-Philosophicus in an English translation.
• Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg provides a proof of the "Lindeberg condition" of thecentral limit theorem.^[8]
• Ernst Steinitz provesSteinitz's theorem inpolyhedral combinatorics.^[9]

• January 11 – First successfulinsulin treatment ofdiabetes, byFrederick Banting inToronto, using a pure preparation intravenously injected; on the same dateNicolae Paulescu makes an apparently successful rectal administration of an insulin preparation.

• English mathematical physicistLewis Fry Richardson proposes a scheme forweather forecasting by solution ofdifferential equations, the method used in modern times, in his workWeather Prediction by Numerical Process.^[10]

• First of four successiveAmerican Museum of Natural History expeditions toMongolia underRoy Chapman Andrews which will discover fossils ofIndricotherium (a gigantic hornlessrhinoceros then named "Baluchitherium"),Protoceratops, anest ofProtoceratopseggs (found in 1995 to be fromOviraptor),Pinacosaurus,Saurornithoides,Oviraptor andVelociraptor, none of which were known before.

• Arthur Compton studies X-ray photonscattering by electrons.
• Otto Stern andWalther Gerlach show "space quantization".
• Hilding Faxén introducesFaxén's law for the velocity of a sphere influid dynamics.^[11]
• Albert Einstein'sThe Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University, May 1921 is published byPrinceton University Press.

• February 14 – The world's first regular wireless broadcasts for entertainment, made byPeter Eckersley, begin transmission on radio station2MT from a hut at theMarconi Company laboratories atWrittle nearChelmsford in England. This is followed in the United Kingdom on May 11 by station2LO fromMarconi House in London, which from November 22 becomes theBritish Broadcasting Company (BBC).
• Lancia Lambda is the firstautomobile to usemonocoque construction.
• Approximate date –Madeleine Vionnet introduces thebias cut dress in Paris.

• Nobel Prize
  • Physics –Niels Bohr
  • Chemistry –Francis William Aston
  • Physiology or Medicine –Archibald Vivian Hill andOtto Fritz Meyerhof

• January 9 –Har Gobind Khorana (died2011), Indian-bornbiochemist andNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (shared with Ralph F. Hirschmann).
• February 12 –William Rashkind (died1986), Americancardiologist.
• March 4 –Geoff Tootill (died2017), Englishcomputer scientist.
• March 7 –Olga Ladyzhenskaya (died2004), Russianmathematician.^[12]
• April 22 –Wolf V. Vishniac (died1973), Americanmicrobiologist.
• May 4 –Eugenie Clark (died2015), Americanichthyologist.
• May 6 –Ralph F. Hirschmann (died2009),German American biochemist, leader of a team responsible for the firstorganic synthesis of anenzyme, aribonuclease; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (shared with Har Gobind Khorana).
• June 19 –Aage Bohr (died2009),Danishnuclear physicist andNobel Prize in Physics laureate.
• June 22 –Ewen Whitaker (died2016), English-born lunar astronomer.
• June 26 –Cuchlaine King (died2019), Britishgeomorphologist.
• June 29 –San Baw (died1984), Burmeseorthopaedic surgeon.
• July 9 –Kathleen Booth (died2022), English-born computer scientist.
• July 15 –Leon M. Lederman (died2018), American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.
• July 18 –Thomas Kuhn (died1996), American philosopher of science.^[13]
• July 25 –John B. Goodenough (died2023), German-born Americansolid-state physicist andNobel Prize in Chemistry laureate.
• August 24 –Donald Henry Colless (died2012), Australianentomologist.
• September 2 –Arthur Ashkin (died2020), American physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.
• September 5 –Denys Wilkinson (died2016), English nuclear physicist.
• November 8 –Christiaan Barnard (died2001),South Africancardiac surgeon.
• November 15 –David Sidney Feingold (died2019), American biochemist and academic.
• November 26 –John D. Hoffman (died2004), Americannuclear chemist.
• December 18 –Esther Lederberg (died2006), American microbiologist.

• January 5 –Ernest Shackleton (born1874), Anglo-Irishexplorer (of heart attack at South Georgia Island).
• January 15 –Edward Hopkinson (born1859), Englishelectrical engineer.
• January 22 –Camille Jordan (born1838), Frenchmathematician.
• April 1 –Hermann Rorschach (born1884), Swisspsychiatrist.
• April 9 – SirPatrick Manson (born1844), Scottish-born "father oftropical medicine".
• May 26 –Ernest Solvay (born1838), Belgianchemist.
• June 18 –Jacobus Kapteyn (born1851), Dutchastronomer.
• August 2 –Alexander Graham Bell (born1847), Scottish Americaninventor (in Nova Scotia).
• August 18 –W. H. Hudson (born1841), Anglo-Argentinenaturalist.
• August 29 –Sophie Bryant (born1850), Anglo-Irish mathematician and educationalist (in hiking accident in the Alps).
• September 7 –William Stewart Halsted (born1852), Americansurgeon.
• October 25 –Oscar Hertwig (born1849), Germanzoologist.

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