Compton, Arthur

Compton, Arthur Holly. 1935. The Freedom of Man. Greenwood Press, 1969. 

Compton, Arthur Holly (1892-1962) US physicist, who became professor of physics at the University of Chicago in 1923. He is best known for his discovery (1923) of the Compton effect, for which he shared the 1927 Nobel Prize for physics with C. T. R. Wilson. In 1938 he demonstrated that cosmic radiation consists of charged particles. 

At the invitation of Arthur C. Cope, John joined the Faculty of M.l.T. as an Assistant Professor in 1946. Cope had just been appointed as Head of the Department of Chemistry by the President of M.l.T., Kart T. Compton, on the advice of his friend and wartime associate Roger Adams of the University of Illinois. At the same... 

During the decade of 1920-1929, no Americans were honored in chemistry, physiology, or medicine, but the Nobel prize in physics went to Robert Milliken in 1923 and to Arthur Compton (with the Englishman Charles Wilson) in 1927. Thereafter, U.S. scientists would receive about one of every three Nobel prizes in physiology, chemistry and medicine combined. The vitality of U.S. science was also found in the production of Ph.D. s in chemistry from 1921 to 1930. During this... 

The Conference was opened on October 24 with reports by Lawrence Bragg and Arthur Compton about the new experimental evidence regarding scattering of X-rays by electrons exhibiting widely different features when firmly bound in crystalline structures of heavy substances and when practically free in atoms of light gases. 

Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Professor Department of Chemistry The University of Chicago 5735 South Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 773-702-5059 USA... 

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