21. Compton, Arthur Holly | Definition Of Compton, Arthur Holly | HighBeam.com: Onli Find out what Compton, Arthur Holly means A Dictionary of Scientists has the definition of Compton, Arthur Holly. Research related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles at http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1O84-ComptonArthurHolly.html

22. Compton, Arthur Holly Compton, Arthur Holly (b. Sept. 10, 1892, Wooster, Ohio, U.S.d. March 15, 1962, Berkeley, Calif.), American physicist and joint winner, with C.T.R. Wilson of England, of the http://www.uv.es/EBRIT/micro/micro_138_84.html

Britannica CD Index Articles Dictionary Help Compton, Arthur Holly (b . Sept. 10, 1892, Wooster, Ohio, U.S.d. March 15, 1962, Berkeley, Calif.), American physicist and joint winner, with C.T.R. Wilson of England, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for his discovery and explanation of the change in the wavelength of X rays when they collide with electrons. This so-called Compton effect q.v. ) is caused by the transfer of energy from the photon to the electron. Its discovery in 1922 confirmed the dual nature of electromagnetic radiation as both a wave and a particle. Compton, a younger brother of the physicist Karl T. Compton, received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1916 and became head of the department of physics at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1920. From 1923 to 1945 he was professor of physics at the University of Chicago. In 1941 Compton was chairman of the committee of the National Academy of Sciences that studied the military potential of atomic energy. In this capacity he was instrumental, with the physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, in initiating the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb. From 1942 to 1945 he was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, which developed the first self-sustaining atomic chain reaction and paved the way for controlled release of nuclear energy. He became chancellor of Washington University in 1945 and was professor of natural history there from 1953 until 1961.

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24. Arthur Holly Compton 1892-1962 A RTHUR H OLLY C OMPTON 18921962 When Arthur Compton graduated from college he considered taking up a religious career. But his father advised him that he ought to go into science Your http://www.aip.org/history/gap/Compton/Compton.html

Selected Papers HOME PREFACE AFTERWORD PDF ... MILLIKAN COMPTON A RTHUR H OLLY C OMPTON When Arthur Compton graduated from college he considered taking up a religious career. But his father advised him that he ought to go into science: "Your work in this field may become a more valuable Christian service than if you were to enter the ministry or become a missionary." Such thoughts helped Compton reconcile the two chief influences of his upbringing, devout religion and intellectual work. His father was Professor of Philosophy and later Dean of the College of Wooster, where Arthur was educated; his older brother and good friend Karl, later a noted physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, communicated his own love of science. At an early point Karl introduced Arthur to the study of X-rays, which was to be the younger brother's main line of work for many years. In 1913 he followed Karl to Princeton, and for his Ph.D. thesis studied the angular distribution of X-rays reflected from crystals. On graduation in 1916 he married a classmate from Wooster College, Betty McCloskey, who became an intelligent and enthusiastic partner in his later activities. Compton was named instructor in physics at the University of Minnesota, one of a number of state-supported schools that were working hard to teach science and to introduce the spirit of pure research. The experiments begun here eventually led Compton to state that magnetization of a material depends not on the orbits of the electrons in it, but on the electron's own elementary characteristics; he was the first to suggest the existence of quantized electron spin.

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34. Compton, Arthur Holly (1892-1962) American physicist who discovered the Compton effect (1923), thus providing evidence that Xrays could act as particles as predicted by quantum theory. http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/Compton_Arthur.html

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COMPTON ARTHUR HOLLY Bird,K. The Chairman. 1992 Broad,W. Teller's War. 1992 Coleman,P. The Liberal Conspiracy. 1989 Diamond,S. Compromised Campus. 1992 ... Sayer,I. Botting,D. America's Secret Army. 1989 pages cited this search: 7 Order hard copy of these pages Show a social network diagram for this name Try another NameBase search NameBase book reviews

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