Arthur H. Compton(1892–1962)

Physics

Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R.

United StatesIona College
1
Major Awards
185
Publications
5,699
Citations
30
h-index
62
i10-index
30.8
Avg Citations/Paper

Awards & Recognition

Nobel Prize in Physics

for his discovery of the effect named after him

University of Chicago
1927

Education

Princeton University
University of Chicago
College of Wooster
Cavendish Laboratory
University of Minnesota
Bluffton University

Doctoral Advisors

Luis Walter AlvarezWinston H. BostickPiara Singh GillRobert S. ShanklandDarol FromanFrancis Rudolph ShonkaJoyce Alvin BeardenOwen Willans RichardsonHereward Lester Cooke

Career Timeline

Washington University in St. Louis?–present
University of Chicago?–present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology?–present

Positions & Roles

board member

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