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The year 1922 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

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 (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 .