Compton, Karl

Compton, Karl Taylor. The battle of the alchemists, by Karl T. Compton. 

Barton and Buffum proposed to an enraged Bancroft that he turn over his faltering journal to the AIP as a forum for mathematically oriented papers at the "borderland" of physics and chemistry. When he refused, the Chemical Foundation switched its financial support from the Journal of Physical Chemistry to the proposed AIP journal. Karl Compton, president of MIT and chairman of the governing board of the AIP, requested Lewis and others to serve on the advisory board for the journal that Harold Urey would edit. Compton s letter carried this statement defining the rationale for establishing the journal ... 

Letter from Karl Compton to G. N. Lewis, August 6, 1932, G. N. Lewis Papers, BL.UCB. 

J. A. Armstrong, "Is Basic Research a Luxury " Karl Taylor Compton Eectures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 13,... 

Karl Taylor Compton—scientist and educator—wrote, While it is occasionally pleasant to think back, it is far more profitable and interesting to think ahead. Adventure, progress, and exhilaration of achievement always lie in the future, and their planning should be the chief concern of the present. Compton must have been referring to market development when he used words like adventure, progress, and exhilaration of achievement, because each of those is very much part of this effort. 

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., Karl T. Compton, on the advice of his friend and wartime associate Roger Adams of the University of Illinois. At the same... 

Debbie S. Silvester, Emma I. Rogers, Richard C. Compton, KatyJ. McKenzie, Karl S. Ryder, Frank Endres, Douglas MacFarlane, and Andrew P. Abbott... 

Vannevar Bush made a similar choice that spring. The sharp-eyed Yankee engineer, who looked like a beardless Uncle Sam, had left his MIT vice presidency for the Carnegie Institution in the first place to position himself closer to the sources of government authority as war approached. Karl Compton had offered to move up to chairman of the MIT corporation and give him the presidency to keep him, but Bush had larger plans. 

Arthur Holly Compton was the son of a Presbyterian minister and professor of philosophy at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. Compton s Mennonite mother was dedicated to missionary causes and had been the 1939 American Mother of the Year. He followed his older brother Karl into science and surpassed him in achievement but preserved the family piety as well Arthm Compton and God were daily companions, notes Leona Woods, Enrico Fermi s young prot6g6 at the University of Chicago. She judged Compton nevertheless a fine scientist and a fine... 

In 1941 war work had already been kind to Arthur Compton s brother, moving Karl to national prominence within the science community and winning an important secret laboratory for MIT. Arthur wanted as much or more. There was the problem of pacifism, his mother s Mennonite creed and a course much discussed at that time in American vestries, a churchly counterpart to isolationism ... 

That was a prescription for an arms race as soon as the Soviet Union took up the challenge. Arthur Compton immediately signed on. So did his brother Karl. Oppenheimer contented himself with a footnote about materials allocation. Stimson eventually summarized the discussion ... 

The leaders of wartime American science, 1940. L. to r, Ernest Lawrence, Arthur Compton, Vannevar Bush, James Bryant Conant, Karl Compton, Alfred Loomis. 

The MIT report also bore the clear imprint of the interwar dialogue within SPEE - MTT President Karl Compton was himself the President of SPEE back in... 

Lecuyer, C. (1993). The making of a science based technological university Karl Compton, James Killian, and the Teform of MIT, 1930-1957. Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 23, 153-180. 

The watershed event in American engineering was World War II. One of the leading institutions in this change was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before the war, MTT had embraced scientific approaches, under the presidency of physicist Karl Compton. Vannevar Bush, a young MTT faculty member, reoriented... 

During his time in the United States, Frumkin not only gave lectures to the staff and students of the University of Wisconsin but also toured many other universities. In this way he met many important American scientists and actively discussed their work with them. For example, at the University of Chicago, he visited the Laboratory of William Draper Harkins (December 28, 1873-March 7,1951) and also met with Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892-March 15, 1962). In Princeton, he discussed the polymerization of unsaturated compotmds with Hugh Stott Taylor (6 February 1890-17 April 1974) and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he discussed the field of electrocapillary phenomena with Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld (February 24, 1892-June 3, 1978). In Philadelphia, he was delighted to meet George Borisovich Kistyakovsky (1900-1982), a chemist with Ukrainian-Jewish roots. 

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