Editing 1922 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 9 – [[Har Gobind Khorana]] (died [[2011 in science|2011]]), Indian-born [[biochemist]] and [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] laureate (shared with Ralph F. Hirschmann).
* February 12 – [[William Rashkind]] (died [[1986 in science|1986]]), American [[cardiologist]].
* March 4 – [[Geoff Tootill]] (died [[2017 in science|2017]]), English [[computer scientist]].
* March 7 – [[Olga Ladyzhenskaya]] (died [[2004 in science|2004]]), Russian [[mathematician]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Struwe|chapter=Olga Ladyzhenskaya: A Life-Long Devotion to Mathematics|editor-first1=Stefan|editor-last1=Hildebrandt|editor-first2=Hermann|editor-last2=Karcher|title=Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations|location=Berlin|publisher=Springer|year=2003|isbn=978-3-54044-051-2|page=1}}</ref>
* April 22 – [[Wolf V. Vishniac]] (died [[1973 in science|1973]]), American [[microbiologist]].
* May 4 – [[Eugenie Clark]] (died [[2015 in science|2015]]), American [[ichthyologist]].
* May 6 – [[Ralph F. Hirschmann]] (died [[2009 in science|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 in science|2009]]), [[Danes|Danish]] [[Nuclear physics|nuclear physicist]] and [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] laureate.
* June 22 – [[Ewen Whitaker]] (died [[2016 in science|2016]]), English-born lunar astronomer.
* June 26 – [[Cuchlaine King]] (died [[2019 in science|2019]]), British [[geomorphologist]].
* June 29 – [[San Baw]] (died [[1984 in science|1984]]), Burmese [[orthopaedic surgeon]].
* July 9 – [[Kathleen Booth]] (died [[2022 in science|2022]]), English-born computer scientist.
* July 15 – [[Leon M. Lederman]] (died [[2018 in science|2018]]), American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.
* July 18 – [[Thomas Kuhn]] (died [[1996 in science|1996]]), American philosopher of science.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Obituary: Thomas S. Kuhn (18 July 1922 - 17 June 1996)|jstor=285595|journal=Social Studies of Science|volume=27|issue=3|pages=483–502|date=1997|last1=Edge|first1=David|last2=Harre|first2=Rom|last3=Brown|first3=Andrew|last4=Barnes|first4=Barry|last5=Mulkay|first5=Michael|last6=Fuller|first6=Steve|last7=Rudwick|first7=Martin|last8=Giere|first8=Ronald N.|last9=Bloor|first9=David|doi=10.1177/030631297027003005|pmid=11619257|s2cid=28154701}}</ref>
* July 25 – [[John B. Goodenough]] (died [[2023 in science|2023]]), German-born American [[solid-state physicist]] and [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] laureate.
* August 24 – [[Donald Henry Colless]] (died [[2012 in science|2012]]), Australian [[entomologist]].
* September 2 – [[Arthur Ashkin]] (died [[2020 in science|2020]]), American physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.
* September 5 – [[Denys Wilkinson]] (died [[2016 in science|2016]]), English nuclear physicist.
* November 8 – [[Christiaan Barnard]] (died [[2001 in science|2001]]), [[South Africa]]n [[cardiac surgeon]].
* November 15 – [[David Sidney Feingold]] (died [[2019 in science|2019]]), American biochemist and academic.
* November 26 – [[John D. Hoffman]] (died [[2004 in science|2004]]), American [[nuclear chemist]].
* December 18 – [[Esther Lederberg]] (died [[2006 in science|2006]]), American microbiologist.