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    Karl Taylor Compton (September 14, 1887 – June 22, 1954) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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    formed National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), as technical aide to Karl Compton, president of MIT, who was serving also as the chairman of the radar...
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    the Distribution of the Electrons in Atoms. When Arthur Compton earned his PhD in 1916, he, Karl and Wilson became the first group of three brothers to...
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    administration began in 1930, with the appointment of Karl T. Compton as president. Bush and Compton soon clashed over the issue of limiting the amount of...
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    engineers needed scientific research training. In 1930, he recruited Karl Taylor Compton to helm MIT's transformation as a "technological" research university...
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    house, MIT Press. He became executive assistant to MIT President Karl Taylor Compton in 1939, and co-directed the wartime operation of MIT, which strongly...
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    Admiral Harold G. Bowen, Sr.; Conway P. Coe, Commissioner of Patents; Karl Compton, President of MIT; James B. Conant, President of Harvard University;...
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    founded in 1946 by Georges Doriot, Ralph Flanders, Merrill Griswold, and Karl Compton. ARDC is credited with the first major venture capital success story...
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  • to physicist Karl Compton at MIT, not Einstein. Although the film portrays Groves' aggressive recruitment of Oppenheimer, Arthur Compton at the Metallurgical...
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    Keith Karl Compton (9 December 1915 – 15 June 2004) was a U.S. Air Force lieutenant general who was vice commander in chief, Strategic Air Command, with...
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    return to the U.S. he joined the physics department at Harvard. In 1930, Karl Compton, the president of MIT, appointed Slater as chairman of MIT's department...
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    Doriot, the "father of venture capitalism", along with Ralph Flanders and Karl Compton (former president of MIT) founded ARDC in 1946 to encourage private-sector...
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  • Americans then described their microwave research done by Loomis and Karl Compton earlier in 1940. The British realised that Bell Telephone Laboratories...
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    (1879–1943), Major League Baseball player. Arthur Compton (1892–1962), physicist, Nobel Laureate. Karl Compton (1887–1954), physicist. Hal Dean (1922–2011)...
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    Research Council, and the Board of Technology. The mission, which included Karl Compton, interviewed over 300 Japanese scientists and produced reports on Japanese...
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  • constantly coming out of his lab. In 1941, Schmitt was recruited by MIT's Karl Compton and Vannevar Bush to lead radically new Department of Biology there that...
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  • venture capital firms[citation needed] along with Ralph Flanders and Karl Compton (former president of MIT), to encourage private sector investments in...
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  • – France (born 1933) Nobel laureate Arthur Compton – United States (1892–1962) Nobel laureate Karl Compton – United States (1887–1954) Edward Condon –...
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    problems with the material. In spite of support from university president Karl Compton, Telkes was reassigned to the metallurgy department, where she continued...
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    Wilson was the second of three brothers, the others being Karl Taylor Compton and Arthur Compton, both physicists and university presidents. All three brothers...
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    Edward Theodore Compton, usually referred to as E. T. Compton, (29 July 1849 – 22 March 1921) was an English-born, German artist, illustrator and mountain...
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  • Compton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Allen T. Compton (1938–2008), justice of the Alaska Supreme Court Ann Compton...
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    Duffy, p. 36) The Baker Board consisted of Gen. Drum; Gen. Foulois; Dr. Karl Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. George W. Lewis...
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    Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the...
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  • Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, DBE (/ˈkʌmptən/; 5 June 1884 – 27 August 1969) was an English novelist, published in the original editions as I. Compton-Burnett...
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  • Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. In 1936, accepting an invitation by Karl Compton, von Hippel moved again, this time to the United States, and became an...
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    graphite for chain reaction experiments. It also recommended that Einstein, Karl Compton, George B. Pegram, and Sachs be added to the committee. When he read...
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    and receiving goods by cargo ship. In 1946, Georges Doriot, Flanders, Karl Compton and others organized American Research & Development (AR&D). This was...
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    capitalism" (former dean of Harvard Business School), with Ralph Flanders and Karl Compton (former president of MIT), to encourage private sector investments in...
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    Julius A. (1992). Karl Taylor Compton, 1887–1954 (PDF). National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 Oct 2011. "Wilson M. Compton". Washington State University...
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