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Arthur Holly Compton was born on September 10, 1892, in Wooster, Ohio, to Elias and Otelia Compton. He earned a Bachelor of Science in 1913 from the College of Wooster, at which his father had been the Dean, and then spent three years in postgraduate study at Princeton University, where he devised an elegant method for demonstrating the Earth's rotation.
ARTHUR HOLLY COMPTON 1892-1962: 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."
12 de jun. de 2024 · Arthur Holly Compton died on March 15 [1962], in Berkeley California, as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered two weeks earlier. He was sixty-nine. He had retired last year [1961] as distinguished service professor of natural philosophy in Washington University (St. Louis) where he had served as chancellor from 1945 until 1953.
Arthur Holly Compton (ur. 10 września 1892 w Wooster , Ohio , zm. 15 marca 1962 w Berkeley , Kalifornia ) – amerykański fizyk , laureat Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie fizyki [1] .
Arthur Compton and the mysteries of light. For nearly 20 years, Einstein’s quantum theory of light was disputed on the basis that light was a wave. In 1922 Compton’s x-ray scattering experiment proved light’s dual nature. In November 1922 Arthur Holly Compton sketched a diagram for his students at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri.
Arthur Holly Compton, American physicist and joint winner, with C.T.R. Wilson, of the 1927 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery and explanation of the change in the wavelength of X-rays when they collide with electrons in metals. The Compton effect is caused by the transfer of energy from a photon to an electron.
28 de mar. de 2023 · 100 years ago, Arthur Compton measured a wavelength shift in an X-ray scattering experiment, ... Compton, A. H. The Cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton (ed. Johnston, M.) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1967)
