biography
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Compton, Arthur (Holly)
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| (1892–1962)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Wooster, Ohio, USA. He studied at Princeton University, and became professor of physics at Chicago (1923). He was a leading authority on nuclear energy, X-rays, and quantity production of plutonium. He observed and explained the Compton effect, the increase in wavelength of X-rays scattered by collisions with electrons, for which he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927. He became Chancellor of Washington University in 1945, and also professor of natural history there (1953–61). |
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