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    Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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