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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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  • to the improvement of the quantity and quality of the maize crop." Karl T. Compton (1947) "For his notable contributions of an original character to the...
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    barge Bucentaur built for the occasion. In the 1930s, President Karl Taylor Compton and Vice-President (effectively Provost) Vannevar Bush emphasized...
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    of the reorganization of the Institute recommended by President Karl Taylor Compton. SoE has eight academic departments and two interdisciplinary institutes...
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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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    Theoretical Particle Physics from the American Physical Society, the Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics from the American Institute of Physics...
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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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    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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    assigned to take over the project's specific bomb-design research by Arthur Compton at the Metallurgical Laboratory. On May 18, 1942, National Defense Research...
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    History Network American Institute of Physics. Retrieved October 8, 2024. Taylor, D.B.; et al. (October 8, 2024), "Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering...
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     1930 (1930-01-30) Preceded by Elihu Thomson (acting) Succeeded by Karl Taylor Compton 1st Director of the National Bureau of Standards In office March 11...
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  • novelist John Compton, leader of Saint Lucia United Workers Party John Compton, London pipe & electronic organ maker Karl Taylor Compton (1887–1954), physicist...
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  • physics from Princeton in 1920 and 1921, respectively, studying under Karl Taylor Compton. The U.S. National Research Council awarded Smyth a fellowship, and...
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  • four paper on electron discharges in gases, now known as plasma physics. Compton decided to accept one of Phil's papers as his dissertation (Morse 1928):...
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    (1925) 1926–1950 Karl Taylor Compton (1927) Henry Gale (1929) William Francis Gray Swann (1931) Paul D. Foote (1933) Arthur Compton (1934) Robert W. Wood...
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    emergency fund. Bush appointed four leading scientists to the NDRC: Karl Taylor Compton (president of MIT), James B. Conant (president of Harvard University)...
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    Nichols (1921) Elihu Thomson # (1922) Samuel Wesley Stratton (1923) Karl Taylor Compton (1930) James Rhyne Killian (1948) Julius Adams Stratton (1959) Howard...
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  • United States. The School, which consolidated under the leadership of Karl Taylor Compton in 1932, is composed of 6 academic departments who grant SB, SM,...
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    1926 and continued there as PhD student under the supervision of Karl Taylor Compton. He defended his thesis in 1929. The same year, he was also awarded...
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  • Simon, Herbert Alexander (1969). The sciences of the artificial. Karl Taylor Compton lectures. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press. OCLC 4087. Broadbent, G. and A...
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  • a body within the NRC in 1933 in order to advise the president. Karl Taylor Compton served as the chair of the body. However, the body was dissolved...
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    Nichols (1921) Elihu Thomson # (1922) Samuel Wesley Stratton (1923) Karl Taylor Compton (1930) James Rhyne Killian (1948) Julius Adams Stratton (1959) Howard...
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    (1925) 1926–1950 Karl Taylor Compton (1927) Henry Gale (1929) William Francis Gray Swann (1931) Paul D. Foote (1933) Arthur Compton (1934) Robert W. Wood...
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    team. She then moved to Princeton University, where she worked with Karl Taylor Compton with support from a National Research Council fellowship. In 1929...
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    Economy and Employment, 2005 IEEE Founders Medal Recipients, 2004 Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics, American Institute of Physics, 2001...
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    Nichols (1921) Elihu Thomson # (1922) Samuel Wesley Stratton (1923) Karl Taylor Compton (1930) James Rhyne Killian (1948) Julius Adams Stratton (1959) Howard...
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  • Nichols (1921–1922) 10 10 Samuel Wesley Stratton (1923–1930) 11 11 Karl Taylor Compton (1930–1948) 12 12 James Rhyne Killian (1948–1959) 13 13 Julius Adams...
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    (1925) 1926–1950 Karl Taylor Compton (1927) Henry Gale (1929) William Francis Gray Swann (1931) Paul D. Foote (1933) Arthur Compton (1934) Robert W. Wood...
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    been directed at producing enriched uranium, but Committee member Arthur Compton determined that a feasible alternative was plutonium, which could be mass-produced...
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    Byrnes, George L. Harrison, Vannevar Bush, James Bryant Conant, Karl Taylor Compton, William L. Clayton, and Ralph Austin Bard, advised by a Scientific...
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