Overview of the events of 1922 in science
The year 1922 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Archaeology [ edit ] Biology [ edit ] Chemistry [ edit ] Ethnology [ edit ] Mathematics [ edit ] Medicine [ edit ] Meteorology [ edit ] Paleontology [ edit ] Physics [ edit ] Technology [ edit ] 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 . References [ edit ] ^ Nowell, Kristin; Jackson, Peter (1996). "Panthera Leo" (PDF) . Wild Cats: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan . Gland, Switzerland: IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. pp. 17–21. ISBN 2-8317-0045-0 . ^ "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 .