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Arthur Holly Compton
Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R. Wilson for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. It was a significant discovery at the time; the wave nature of light had been well-demonstrated, but the idea that light had both wave and particle properties was not easily accep…
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science · American physicist (1892–1962) · physicist · university teacher · theoretical physicist · nuclear physicist · also Arthur Holly Compton, Arthur Compton, Arthur H. Compton, Compton
Born 10 September 1892 · Died 15 March 1962 · Q127944
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1962· 2 entries
In Berkeley, California, at the age of 69
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Died 1962-03-15.
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded X-ray badge (1957).
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Career landmark: board member (1957–1962).
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1954· 1 entry
But remained on the faculty as Distinguished Service Professor of Natural Philosophy until his retirement from the full-time faculty in 1961
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1953· 1 entry
Is credited with the prototyping of the "traffic control bump", the predecessor of the speed bump, in order to slow down traffic near the university and make roads overall safer by slowing down vehicles
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1952· 1 entry
Named its first female full professor, and enrolled record numbers of students as wartime veterans returned to the United States
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1945· 1 entry
Served, along with Lawrence, Oppenheimer, and Fermi, on the Scientific Panel that recommended military use of the atomic bomb against Japan
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1942· 1 entry
Became a member of the S-1 Executive Committee, and then head of the "X" projects overseeing the Metallurgical Laboratory, with responsibility for producing nuclear reactors to convert uranium into plutonium, finding
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1941).
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1940· 2 entries
Won Franklin Medal (1940).
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Won Hughes Medal (1940).
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1938· 1 entry
Career landmark: board member (1938–1956).
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1935· 1 entry
Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1935).
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1934· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1934).
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Returned to England as Eastman visiting professor at Oxford University
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1931· 1 entry
Compton championed the idea of human freedom based on quantum indeterminacy, and invented the notion of amplification of microscopic quantum events to bring chance into the macroscopic world
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1930· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1930).
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1927· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his discovery of the effect named after him.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1927).
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1926· 3 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1926).
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Awarded Rumford Prize (1926).
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Became a consultant for the Lamp Department at General Electric
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1925· 1 entry
Demonstrated that the scattering of 130,000-volt X-rays from the first sixteen elements in the periodic table (hydrogen through sulfur) were polarized, a result predicted by J
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1923· 2 entries
Compton published a paper in the Physical Review that explained the X-ray shift by attributing particle-like momentum to photons, something Einstein had invoked for his 1905 Nobel Prize-winning explanation of the photoel
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Compton moved to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics, a position he would occupy for the next 22 years
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1922· 1 entry
Found that X-ray quanta scattered by free electrons had longer wavelengths and, in accordance with Planck's relation, less energy than the incoming X-rays, the surplus energy having been transferred to the electrons
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1919· 1 entry
Compton was awarded one of the first two National Research Council Fellowships that allowed students to study abroad
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1917· 1 entry
Became a research engineer at the Westinghouse Lamp Company in Pittsburgh, where he worked on the development of the sodium-vapor lamp
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1916· 3 entries
He, Karl, and Wilson became the first group of three brothers to earn PhDs from Princeton
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Compton became a physics instructor at the University of Minnesota
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And was President of the State College of Washington (now Washington State University) from 1944 to 1951
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1912· 1 entry
And was President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1930 to 1948
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1900· 1 entry
These were conceptualized as elements of light "quantized" by containing a specific amount of energy depending only on the frequency of the light
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1892· 2 entries
In Wooster, Ohio, the son of Elias Compton and Otelia Catherine Augspurger, who was named American Mother of the Year in 1939 and was of German Mennonite descent
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Born 1892-09-10.
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