The year 1922 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
- January 9 – Har Gobind Khorana (died 2011), Indian-born biochemist and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (shared with Ralph F. Hirschmann).
- February 12 – William Rashkind (died 1986), American cardiologist.
- March 4 – Geoff Tootill (died 2017), English computer scientist.
- March 7 – Olga Ladyzhenskaya (died 2004), Russian mathematician.[12]
- April 22 – Wolf V. Vishniac (died 1973), American microbiologist.
- May 4 – Eugenie Clark (died 2015), American ichthyologist.
- May 6 – Ralph F. Hirschmann (died 2009), German American biochemist, leader of a team responsible for the first organic synthesis of an enzyme, a ribonuclease; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (shared with Har Gobind Khorana).
- June 19 – Aage Bohr (died 2009), Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.
- June 22 – Ewen Whitaker (died 2016), English-born lunar astronomer.
- June 26 – Cuchlaine King (died 2019), British geomorphologist.
- June 29 – San Baw (died 1984), Burmese orthopaedic surgeon.
- July 9 – Kathleen Booth (died 2022), English-born computer scientist.
- July 15 – Leon M. Lederman (died 2018), American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.
- July 18 – Thomas Kuhn (died 1996), American philosopher of science.[13]
- July 25 – John B. Goodenough (died 2023), German-born American solid-state physicist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate.
- August 24 – Donald Henry Colless (died 2012), Australian entomologist.
- September 2 – Arthur Ashkin (died 2020), American physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.
- September 5 – Denys Wilkinson (died 2016), English nuclear physicist.
- November 8 – Christiaan Barnard (died 2001), South African cardiac surgeon.
- November 15 – David Sidney Feingold (died 2019), American biochemist and academic.
- November 26 – John D. Hoffman (died 2004), American nuclear chemist.
- January 5 – Ernest Shackleton (born 1874), Anglo-Irish explorer (of heart attack at South Georgia Island).
- January 15 – Edward Hopkinson (born 1859), English electrical engineer.
- January 22 – Camille Jordan (born 1838), French mathematician.
- April 1 – Hermann Rorschach (born 1884), Swiss psychiatrist.
- April 9 – Sir Patrick Manson (born 1844), Scottish-born "father of tropical medicine".
- May 26 – Ernest Solvay (born 1838), Belgian chemist.
- June 18 – Jacobus Kapteyn (born 1851), Dutch astronomer.
- August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell (born 1847), Scottish American inventor (in Nova Scotia).
- August 18 – W. H. Hudson (born 1841), Anglo-Argentine naturalist.
- August 29 – Sophie Bryant (born 1850), Anglo-Irish mathematician and educationalist (in hiking accident in the Alps).
- September 7 – William Stewart Halsted (born 1852), American surgeon.
- October 25 – Oscar Hertwig (born 1849), German zoologist.
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- ^ "Save the Tiger". Koreanhistoryproject.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ^ Muller, H. J. (1922). "Variation due to Change in the Individual Gene". American Naturalist. 56 (642): 32–50. doi:10.1086/279846. S2CID 31573243.
- ^ Schwartz, James (2008). In Pursuit of the Gene: from Darwin to DNA. Harvard University Press.
- ^ DE 438818.
- ^ Evans, H. M.; Bishop, K. S. (1922). "On the existence of a hitherto unrecognized dietary factor essential for reproduction". Science. 56 (1458): 650–651. Bibcode:1922Sci....56..650E. doi:10.1126/science.56.1458.650. JSTOR 1647181. PMID 17838496.
- ^ Staudinger, H.; Fritschi, J. (1922). "Über die Hydrierung des Kautschuks und über seine Konstitution". Helvetica Chimica Acta. 5 (5): 785–806. doi:10.1002/hlca.19220050517.
- ^ Lindeberg, J. W. (1922). "Eine neue Herleitung des Exponentialgesetzes in der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung". Mathematische Zeitschrift. 15 (1): 211–225. doi:10.1007/BF01494395. S2CID 119730242.
- ^ Steinitz, E. (1922), "Polyeder und Raumeinteilungen", Encyclopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Band 3 (Geometries), pp. 1–139.
- ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ Faxén, Hilding (1922). "Der Widerstand gegen die Bewegung einer starren Kugel in einer zähen Flüssigkeit, die zwischen zwei parallelen ebenen Wänden eingeschlossen ist". Annalen der Physik. 373 (10): 89–119. Bibcode:1922AnP...373...89F. doi:10.1002/andp.19223731003.
- ^ Struwe, Michael (2003). "Olga Ladyzhenskaya: A Life-Long Devotion to Mathematics". In Hildebrandt, Stefan; Karcher, Hermann (eds.). Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Berlin: Springer. p. 1. ISBN 978-3-54044-051-2.
- ^ Edge, David; Harre, Rom; Brown, Andrew; Barnes, Barry; Mulkay, Michael; Fuller, Steve; Rudwick, Martin; Giere, Ronald N.; Bloor, David (1997). "Obituary: Thomas S. Kuhn (18 July 1922 - 17 June 1996)". Social Studies of Science. 27 (3): 483–502. doi:10.1177/030631297027003005. JSTOR 285595. PMID 11619257. S2CID 28154701.