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    Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R. Wilson for...
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    by Arthur Holly Compton while researching the scattering of X-rays by light elements, and earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927. The Compton effect...
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  • adopt indeterminism until the rise of quantum mechanics. In 1931, Arthur Holly Compton championed the idea of human freedom based on quantum indeterminacy...
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  • "Arthur Holly Compton 1892–1962". Biographical Memoirs. 38. National Academy of Sciences: 81–110. ISSN 0077-2933. OCLC 1759017. "Arthur Holly Compton |...
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    1063/PT.5.9069. The Nobel Foundation (Arthur Holly Compton and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson) (1937). "Arthur Holly Compton for his discovery of the effect named...
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    (3), 426–430 (1968). R. S. Shankland, ed., Scientific Papers of Arthur Holly Compton, (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1973). R. S. Shankland, "Michelson's...
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    existence. In 1923 Arthur Holly Compton showed that the wavelength shift seen when low intensity X-rays scattered from electrons (so called Compton scattering)...
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  • at the Washington University in St. Louis, Arthur Holly Compton demonstrated an effect now known as Compton scattering. This effect is only explainable...
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    gamma-ray telescope of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory named for fellow Nobel Laureate in Physics (1927), Arthur Holly Compton. Stanford University's Department...
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  • 19, 1965, Moscow, USSR) is an American mathematician. He is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics...
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    the limit of large quantum numbers. The discovery of Compton scattering by Arthur Holly Compton in 1923 convinced most physicists that light was composed...
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  • known specimens of the Syrian wild ass die. Nobel Prizes Physics – Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Chemistry – Heinrich Otto Wieland Medicine...
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    Chouteau William Clark Bill Clay (William L. Clay) Barry Commoner Arthur Holly Compton Jimmy Connors Carl and Gerty Cori Bob Costas John Danforth William...
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    after deployment, NASA renamed the satellite the Arthur Holly Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, or Compton Observatory, after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist...
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    people are distinct from physical ones. When he gave the second Arthur Holly Compton Memorial Lecture in 1965, Popper revisited the idea of quantum indeterminacy...
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  • being put into practice in India. Nobel Prize–winning physicist Dr. Arthur Holly Compton was particularly enchanted with Athavale's ideas and offered him...
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    Medicine) Prof. Arthur Holly Compton (Former Faculty member and appointed lecturer in PU. Nobel laureate 1927 – Physics for his discovery of Compton's effect)...
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  • American Nuclear Society. 2014 Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award 2018 Arthur Holly Compton Award In Education (ETWDD) from the American Nuclear Society 2019...
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    (30 mph), but braking was poor by modern standards.[citation needed] Arthur Holly Compton was a physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1927...
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  • degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was an Arthur Holly Compton Fellow and majored in math and environmental studies. During college...
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    effect). Subsequent thinkers using this model include Henri Poincaré, Arthur Holly Compton, and Karl Popper. James did important work in philosophy of religion...
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  • for basketball, tennis and volleyball that are put to use daily. Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Exter, economist, member of the...
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  • mathematician and scientist Henri Poincaré (about 1906), the physicist Arthur Holly Compton (1931, 1955), the philosopher Karl Popper (1965, 1977), the physicist...
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    gyroscope devices. Arthur Compton (Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927) published it during his fourth year at the College of Wooster in 1913. A Compton generator is...
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    and expansion of the Danforth Campus to the present day. In 1922, Arthur Holly Compton, a physics professor, conducted a series of experiments in the basement...
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    Past, Westcliffe, Englewood Colo; page 119. Arthur H. Compton, Chapter 19, The Cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton, Knopf, 1968; page 206. Val L. Fitch, The...
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    S. and M.S. degrees with a major in engineering. However, due to Arthur Holly Compton, a physics faculty member and later Chancellor, Eckart was influenced...
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  • 1970s and remained a professor until his retirement. He received the Arthur Holly Compton Award for "outstanding contribution to education in the field of...
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  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) from 2013–present. Arthur Holly Compton, Physics (1913), Nobel Prize-winning physicist; member of the National...
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    1985. Hilberry was the recipient of the American Nuclear Society's Arthur Holly Compton Award, and received a citation for meritorious service from the Atomic...
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