Arthur Holly Compton


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Noun1.Arthur Holly Compton - United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and gamma rays and nuclear energyArthur Holly Compton - United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of light (1892-1962)
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Lewis, dean of the College of Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology at South Carolina State University and the first African-American recipient of the Arthur Holly Compton Award, which recognizes contributions to education in nuclear science and engineering.
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In 1922, Arthur Holly Compton demonstrated experimentally that electromagnetic radiation (e.g., light and X-rays), formerly conceived of as waves, has properties which can be explained only by treating it as consisting of particles.
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President Eisenhower spoke briefly, followed by Henry Ford II and physicists John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton University and Arthur Holly Compton of Washington University.
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In 1923 the American physicist Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962) showed that X rays scattered by matter tended to lengthen their waves.
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