List of Famous people who born in 1922

Ida Ørskov was a Danish physician and bacteriologist whose dissertation Om Klebsiella was the first scientific study pointing to the risk of bacterial cross-infection in hospitals.

Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme was a British physicist. He first proposed modeling the effective interaction between nucleons in nuclei by a zero-range potential, an idea still widely used today in nuclear structure and in equation of state for neutron stars. However, he is best known for formulating the first topological soliton to model a particle, the skyrmion. Some of his most important work can be found in selected papers. Skyrme was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society in 1985.

Iring Fetscher was a German academic, political scientist and researcher on Hegel and Marxism.

James "Jim" Ricker Wilson was an American theoretical physicist, known for his pioneering research in numerical relativity and numerical relativistic hydrodynamics.

Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon was an American mathematician and an emeritus professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. Her research concerned partial differential equations and mathematical biology.

Jeanne Landry was a Canadian composer, pianist and teacher who taught counterpoint and harmony at the Faculty of Music at Université Laval from 1951 to 1983. She began as a solo pianist in 1940 and was named the 1946 winner of the Prix d'Europe grant. Landry gave public recitals, appeared on CBC Radio and was an accompanist for various composers and instrumentalists and singers in concert, radio and television. She retired from teaching in 1983, and devoted her time to composition and writing free-form poems.