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Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962

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Personal name headingCompton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1892-09-10
Death date1962-03-15
Place of birthWooster (Ohio)
Place of deathBerkeley (Calif.)
Field of activityPhysics
AffiliationPrinceton University
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
University of Chicago
Profession or occupationPhysicists University and college faculty members
Found inHis The intensity of x-ray reflection ... 1917.
Splinters of infinity, 2024: galley (Arthur Holly Compton)
Britannica website, September 23, 2023 (Arthur Holly Compton; American physicist; born 10 September 1892 in Wooster, Ohio; died 15 March 1962 in Berkeley, California; joint winner, with C.T.R. Wilson of England, of Nobel Prize for physics in 1927 for discovery and explanation of change in wavelength of X-rays when they collide with electrons in metals; doctorate from Princeton University in 1916; head of Department of Physics at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1920; professor of physics at University of Chicago)