| LC control no. | n 50030032 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1892-09-10 |
| Death date | 1962-03-15 |
| Place of birth | Wooster (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Berkeley (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Physics |
| Affiliation | Princeton University Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) University of Chicago |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists University and college faculty members |
| Found in | His 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) |
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