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	Arthur Compton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur Holly Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio in 1892 to Elias and Otelia Compton.
		Compton returned to Washington University in St. Louis, where he had served as Head of the Department of Physics from 1920 to 1923, when he was inaugurated as the university's ninth Chancellor in 1946.
		Compton is buried in the Wooster Cemetery in Wooster, Ohio.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Holly_Compton (748 words)

	Arthur Compton - MSN Encarta
		Arthur Compton (1892-1962), American physicist and Nobel laureate whose studies of X rays led to his discovery in 1922 of the so-called Compton effect.
		Arthur Holly Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio, and educated at Wooster College and Princeton University.
		For his discovery of the Compton effect and for his investigation of cosmic rays and of the reflection, polarization, and spectra of X rays, he shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in physics with the British physicist Charles Wilson.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570704/Arthur_Compton.html (210 words)

	Compton scattering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Compton effect was observed by Arthur Holly Compton in 1923, for which he earned the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics.
		Compton scattering is of prime importance to radiobiology, as it happens to be the most probable interaction of high energy X rays with atomic nuclei in living beings and is applied in radiation therapy.
		Compton scattering has on occasion been proposed as an alternative explanation for the phenomenon of the redshift by opponents of the Big Bang theory, although this is not generally accepted because the influence of the Compton scattering would be noticeable in the spectral lines of distant objects and this is not observed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Compton_effect (749 words)

	Arthur Holly Compton 1892-1962
		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.
		Compton and many others had always felt that physics was important to the future of the nation, but this was the first time American physicists had seen that their very lives and freedom might depend on the progress of their research.
	www.aip.org /history/gap/Compton/Compton.html (834 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Arthur Compton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		His eldest brother Karl Taylor Compton also attended The College of Wooster, became a physicist, and was later president of MIT; his second brother Wilson M. Compton became a diplomat and president of the State College of Washington, later Washington State University.
		Compton is a prominent lunar crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon.
		Arthur Holly Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio in 1892 to and.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arthur-Compton (2735 words)

	BookRags: Arthur Holly Compton Biography
		Arthur Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio, on Sept. 10, 1892, the youngest child of Elias and Otelia Compton.
		Compton's year in the extremely stimulating intellectual atmosphere at the Cavendish, during which time he carried out gamma-ray scattering experiments and pondered his results, marked a turning point in his career, as he became convinced that he was on the track of a very fundamental physical phenomenon.
		Compton was under extraordinary pressure as he made arrangements for the purification of uranium and the production of plutonium and many other elements that went into the construction of the atomic bomb.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/arthur-holly-compton (1217 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Arthur Holly Compton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Arthur Holly Compton was born at Wooster, Ohio, on September 10th, 1892, the son of Elias Compton, Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College of Wooster.
		Compton returned to St. Louis as Chancellor in 1945 and from 1954 until his retirement in 1961 he was Distinguished Service Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Washington University.
		For this discovery, Compton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1927 (sharing this with C. Wilson who received the Prize for his discovery of the cloud chamber method).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arthur-Holly-Compton (505 words)

	Arthur Holly Compton
		Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1927)for discovery of the effect named after him.
		Compton developed the methodfor observing at the same instant individual scattered X-ray photons and the recoil electrons (developed with A. Simon).
		Compton was placedin charge of the OSRD's S-1 Committee charged with investigating the properties and manufacture of uranium.
	www.therfcc.org /arthur-holly-compton-41652.html (287 words)

	BookRags: Arthur Holly Compton Biography
		Arthur Holly Compton's research on the scattering of x-rays, which he explained by assuming that the rays consist of tiny,discrete particles now called photons, earned him a share of the 1927 Nobel Prize for physics.
		Compton was born on September 10, 1892, in Wooster, Ohio.
		Arthur's oldest brother, Karl, was to become professor of physics and later president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/arthur-holly-compton-wop (1447 words)

	Compton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Compton, city, Los Angeles County, southwestern California, a residential and industrial suburb of Los Angeles; incorporated 1888.
		Compton, Arthur Holly (1892-1962), American physicist and Nobel laureate whose studies of X rays led to his discovery in 1922 of the so-called...
		Compton Effect, increase in the wavelength of high-energy electromagnetic radiation when it collides with electrons.
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	Arthur Holly Compton \| Biography \| atomicarchive.com
		Arthur Holly Compton was born on September 10, 1892, in Wooster, Ohio, to Elias and Otelia Compton.
		From 1930-1940, Compton led a worldwide study of the geographic variations of the intensity of cosmic rays, showing that the intensity was correlated with geomagnetic rather than geographic latitude.
		In 1942, Compton was asked to direct the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, where the first self-sustaining atomic chain reaction occurred.
	www.atomicarchive.com /Bios/Compton.shtml (451 words)

	Arthur Holly Compton - Wikipedia
		Compton untersuchte um 1922 die Streuung von monochromatischen Röntgenstrahlen an Kristallen und machte folgende Beobachtung: Die gestreute Strahlung wies eine geringere Energie und eine größere Wellenlänge auf als die Strahlung vor der Streuung.
		Für diese Arbeiten teilten sich Compton und Wilson 1927 den Nobelpreis für Physik.
		Neben den Arbeiten mit Röntgenstrahlung und Gammastrahlung beschäftigte sich Compton auch mit Kettenreaktionen und kosmischen Strahlen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Holly_Compton (394 words)

	Nuclear Files: Library: Biographies: Arthur Holly Compton
		Arthur Holly Compton was born on 10 September 1892 in Wooster, Ohio.
		Compton served as head of the physics department at Washington University from 1920 until 1923.
		In 1942, Compton was asked to direct the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, where Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard developed the first self-sustaining atomic chain reaction.
	www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/library/biographies/bio_compton-arthur.htm (281 words)

	Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library : Ohio Authors Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Arthur Holly Compton, son of Elias and Otelia Catherine (Augspurger) Compton, was born in 1892 in Wooster, Ohio.
		Arthur Compton was educated at the Wooster Elementary and Grammar School and the Wooster Preparatory School.
		Compton was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics with C.T.R. Wilson in 1927 for the discovery that both matter and energy can be interpreted in terms of particles or as wave phenomena.
	www.ohiocenterforthebook.org /OhioAuthors.aspx?id=96&mode=detail®ion=none (477 words)

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		This so-called Compton effect (q.v.) is caused by the transfer of energy from the photon to the electron.
		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.
		In 1941 Compton was chairman of the committee of the National Academy of Sciences that studied the military potential of atomic energy.
	www.phy.bg.ac.yu /web_projects/giants/compton.html (223 words)

	Compton, Arthur Holly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Compton was also a principal contributor to the development of the atomic bomb.
		Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio, studied at Princeton, and worked 1919-20 in the UK with nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge.
		By 1938 he had collated the results and demonstrated that the rays are deflected into curved paths by the Earth's magnetic field, proving that at least some component of cosmic rays consists of charged particles.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/C/Compton/1.html (274 words)

	Space Today Online - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Compton was the second of NASA's four great observatories in space and the first major space observatory to make a systematic survey of natural sources of gamma rays.
		Compton was the first large space observatory to survey natural sources of gamma rays across the Universe.
		Compton was designed to observe the universe in the gamma-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
	www.spacetoday.org /DeepSpace/Telescopes/GreatObservatories/Compton/Compton.html (667 words)

	Arthur H. Compton - Biography
		This effect, nowadays known as the Compton effect, which clearly illustrates the particle concept of electromagnetic radiation, was afterwards substantiated by C. Wilson who, in his cloud chamber, could show the presence of the tracks of the recoil electrons.
		During 1930-1940, Compton led a world-wide study of the geographic variations of the intensity of cosmic rays, thereby fully confirming the observations made in 1927 by J. Clay from Amsterdam of the influence of latitude on cosmic ray intensity.
		In 1941 Compton was appointed Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Evaluate Use of Atomic Energy in War.
	www.nobel.se /physics/laureates/1927/compton-bio.html (841 words)

	The Hall A Compton Polarimeter
		The Compton was used for the HAPPEX parity violation experiment in 1999 and for the N-Delta experiment in 2000.
		The Compton effect, light scattering off electrons, discovered by Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962), Nobel prize in Physics, 1927, is one of the cornerstone of the wave-particle duality.
		This is the principle of the Compton Polarimetry.
	hallaweb.jlab.org /compton (526 words)

	Arthur Holly Compton - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Arthur Holly Compton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Compton has an art gallery devoted to the work of the Victorian painter and sculptor George Frederick Watts, including Watts' memorial chapel with its art nouveau interior.
		Compton Community College (1927) is in this predominantly fl, working- and middle-class city.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Arthur+Holly+Compton (194 words)

	Geometry.Net - Nobel: Compton Arthur Holly
		Compton, a younger brother of the physicist Karl T. Compton, received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1916 and became head of the department of physics at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1920.
		Compton Scholarships range from $8,000 to $16,000 per year and are awarded annually to entering students who have demonstrated initiative and the capacity for sustained endeavor.
		Arthur Holly Compton Arthur Holly Compton was born on 10 September 1892 in Wooster, Ohio.
	www.geometry.net /detail/nobel/compton_arthur_holly.html (2481 words)

	Compton, Arthur H.
		Arthur Holly Compton was bornon September 10, 1892, in Wooster, Ohio.
		In 1913, Arthur Compton graduated from the college with a Bachelor of Science degree.
		Compton spent the next twenty-two years of his life in Chicago, returning to Washington University in 1945 to serve as this institution's chancellor.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=82 (194 words)

	Space Policy Digest Article - Why Compton Had to Die
		Because of the large size of Compton, six tons of beams, bolts and molten bits were expected to survive planet fall.
		The GRO was renamed in honor Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, who won the Nobel prize in physics for work on the scattering of high-energy photons by electrons.
		Compton had to die because it was owned by a risk-adverse bureaucracy.
	www.frontierstatus.com /spacepolicyarticles/200006_Compton.html (2042 words)

	The religion of Arthur Holly Compton, physicist
		Throughout his life Compton was active in church affairs, from teaching a Sunday School class in Princeton to being an elder in the Second Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, to being a member of the national Presbyterian Board of Education.
		Compton believed that one of mankind's basic problems is an inspiring meaning for life are beyond science.
		For Compton "the supernatural is as real as the natural world of Science." God, he believed, is "the creative and controlling force at work in the world for all who want to find Him." "It is only in unusual phenomena, such as miracles, that God is [directly] concerned.
	www.adherents.com /people/pc/Arthur_Holly_Compton.html (752 words)

	CGRO SSC >> Dr. Arthur Holly Compton
		American physicist Arthur Holly Compton was one of the pioneers of high-energy physics.
		All the experiments onboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory rely on the detailed knowledge of the interaction of high-energy gamma-rays with matter that Compton first described.
		Compton's work in the early 1920's on the scattering of high-energy photons was carried out while he was head of the Department of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis.
	cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov /cgro/compton.html (218 words)

	St. Louis Walk of Fame - Arthur Holly Compton
		Arthur Holly Compton, a science prodigy, built and flew a glider at age 18.
		After directing the World War II research that led to the atomic bomb, he returned to Washington University in 1945 as chancellor.
		In 1991 NASA named its new orbiting gamma-ray observatory after Arthur Holly Compton.
	www.stlouiswalkoffame.org /inductees/arthur-compton.html (144 words)

	WU Libraries: Compton Speed Bumps.
		Nobel-Prize-winning physicist and former Washington University Chancellor Arthur Holly Compton often took time from his scientific and administrative duties for pleasurable diversions like playing his banjo-mandolin at the annual freshman picnic.
		Compton produced two different variations on the same design: one with a single hump; one with a double hump.
		The original bumps were eventually removed, but two of Compton's one-bump models were constructed on each end of Hoyt Drive in 1992 as part of the University's celebration of the 100th anniversary of Compton's birth.
	library.wustl.edu /units/spec/archives/facts/compton_bumps.html (159 words)

	Kenneth F. Kelton, named inaugural Arthur Holly Compton Professor in Arts & Sciences
		During his time on the faculty, Compton discovered an x-ray scattering effect that became known as the “Compton effect,”; which firmly established the particle/wave duality predicted by quantum physics and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927.
		After three years in St. Louis, Compton moved to the University of Chicago, where he served as Dean of Physical Sciences and directed the Metallurgical Laboratory of the Manhattan Project, which was pivotal in the development of the first atomic bomb.
		Compton returned to Washington University in 1945 to serve as the University’s ninth chancellor, where he oversaw great growth of the faculty, especially in the sciences.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~faculty/aboutus/Kenneth_F_Kelton.htm (887 words)

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