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Arthur Compton

1892 - 1962

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Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American particle physicist who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. It was a sensational discovery at the time: the wave nature of light had been well-demonstrated, but the idea that light had both wave and particle properties was not easily accepted. He is also known for his leadership over the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago during the Manhattan Project, and served as chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1945 to 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Compton is the 129th most popular physicist (up from 155th in 2019), the 412th most popular biography from United States (up from 572nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Physicist.

Arthur Compton was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated that light has both wave and particle properties.

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Among physicists, Arthur Compton ranks 129 out of 851. Before him are Anders Jonas Ångström, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Alfred Kastler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and William Rowan Hamilton. After him are Simon van der Meer, James Rainwater, Carl Zeiss, Hans Bethe, James Franck, and Robert Coleman Richardson.

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Among people born in 1892, Arthur Compton ranks 18. Before him are Manfred von Richthofen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Alexander Alekhine, Amanullah Khan, and Sepp Dietrich. After him are Arthur Honegger, Theodor Eicke, Ferdinand Schörner, Engelbert Dollfuss, Oliver Hardy, and George Paget Thomson. Among people deceased in 1962, Arthur Compton ranks 11. Before him are Adolf Eichmann, William Faulkner, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Stuart Sutcliffe, Karen Blixen, and Lucky Luciano. After him are Georges Bataille, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Gaston Bachelard, Yves Klein, Hans Luther, and Auguste Piccard.

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Among people born in United States, Arthur Compton ranks 412 out of 20,380. Before him are James Brown (1933), Geraldine Chaplin (1944), George Smith (1941), Sarah Palin (1964), Iggy Pop (1947), and William Henry Harrison (1773). After him are Shaquille O'Neal (1972), Antony Blinken (1962), O. Henry (1862), Tim Burton (1958), Glenn Close (1947), and Charles Greeley Abbot (1872).

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Among physicists born in United States, Arthur Compton ranks 20. Before him are Clinton Davisson (1881), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Willis Lamb (1913), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839). After him are James Rainwater (1917), Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), Clifford Shull (1915), John Bardeen (1908), Joseph Henry (1797), and George E. Smith (1930).

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