Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962.
Arthur Holly Compton papers, 1905-1971.
Includes correspondence documenting both Compton's scientific career and his work with various humanitarian organizations; research notebooks containing experimental data concerning x-rays, gamma rays, and cosmic rays; publications by Compton and other physicists, including P. M. S. Blackett, Karl T. Compton, Robert Millikan, Ernest Rutherford, and others; sound recordings; home movies; glass slides; photographs, scrapbooks, awards, and other memorabilia; biographical information on members of the Compton family.
Physicist (x-rays, cosmic rays). On the physics faculty at University of Chicago (1923-1945); director, United States Government Plutonium Research Project (1942-1945); Chancellor, Washington University, St. Louis (1945-1953).
Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974.
Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962.
Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937
Cosmic rays -- Experiments.
Gamma rays -- Experiments.
Humanitarianism -- Learned insitutions and societies.
Physics.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science.
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work.
X-rays -- Experiments.
Awards. aat
Biography files. aat
Clich-̀Œverres. aat
Laboratory notes. aat aat
Memorabilia. aat
Motion pictures (visual work) ftaat
Notebooks. aat
Photographs. aat
Scrapbooks. aat
Sound recordings lcgft aat
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954
Compton family.
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.
AIP-ICOS
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