Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect. He served as Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1945 to 1953.
Arthur Holly Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio in 1892 to Elias and Otelia Augspurger Compton. They were an academic family. His father Elias Compton was dean of Wooster University (later The College of Wooster), ...
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Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect. He served as Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1945 to 1953.
Arthur Holly Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio in 1892 to Elias and Otelia Augspurger Compton. They were an academic family. His father Elias Compton was dean of Wooster University (later The College of Wooster), which Arthur attended. His eldest brother Karl Taylor Compton also attended Wooster University, became a physicist, and was later president of MIT. His second brother Wilson Martindale Compton also attended Wooster University and became a diplomat and president of the State College of Washington, later Washington State University. All three brothers earned their Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University.
Around 1913, Arthur Compton devised a demonstration method for the Earth's rotation. In 1918, he began studying X-ray scattering. In 1922,...
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