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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectArthur Holly Compton
Dates
September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962
Authorized Form of Name
Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962
Additional Forms of Names
Compton, Arthur
Biography
Abstract
Nobel winning physicist (x-rays, cosmic rays). On the physics faculty at University of Chicago, 1923-1945; United States Government Plutonium Research Project, 1942-1945; Chancellor, Washington University, St. Louis, 1945-1953.
Important Dates
September 10, 1892Birth, Wooster (Ohio).
1913Obtained BS, College of Wooster, Wooster (Ohio).
1914 – 1916Obtained MA and PhD, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1916 – 1917Instructor in Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Minn.).
1917 – 1919Research Engineer, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh (Pa.).
1919 – 1920National Research Council (NRC) Fellow, Cambridge University.
1920 – 1923Wayman Crow Professor of Physics and Head of Physics Department, Washington University, St. Louis, St. Louis (Mo.).
1923 – 1945Professor of Physics and Swift Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, Chicago (Ill.).
1927Awarded Rumford Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1927Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1927Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics.
1931 – 1934Director, World Survey of Cosmic Rays.
1931 – 1941Research Associate, Carnegie Institution of Washington.
1934President, American Physical Society (APS).
1937 – 1944Member, National Advisory Cancer Council.
1939 – 1940President, American Association of Scientific Workers.
1939 – 1945Member, Board of Trustees, Crerar Library, Chicago (Ill.).
1940Awarded Hughes Medal, Royal Society.
1940Awarded Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute.
1941Chair, Advisory Committee on Uranium Research, National Academy of Sciences.
1941 – 1942Program Chief, S-1 Uranium Section, Office of Scientific Research and Development.
1941 – 1945Member, Board of Trustees, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (Ill.).
1942President, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1942 – 1945Project Leader, Manhattan project, Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory.
1942 – 1946Member, Executive Committee, Section S-1, Office of Scientific Research and Development.
1945 – 1961Chancellor and Distinguished Service Professor of Natural Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, St. Louis (Mo.).
1956 – 1959Member, Board of Trustees, Brookings Institution.
March 15, 1962Death, Berkeley (Calif.).
Occupation
Atomic physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Family
Compton, Arthur Allen
Son.
Compton, Betty Charity McCloskey, 1916-
Wife, married in 1916.
Compton, Charles Arthur
Nephew.
Compton, Elias
Father.
Compton, John (John J.)
Son.
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954
Brother.
Compton, Otelia Augspurger
Mother.
Compton, Wilson Martindale, 1890-1967
Brother.
Rice, Mary Compton
Sister.
Advisors & Collaborators
Allison, Samuel King, 1900-1965
Both employed at University of Chicago and co-wrote "X-rays in theory and experiment."
Advised by Compton at University of Chicago. Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Doan, Richard Lloyd, 1898-
Collaborated to first obtain X-ray spectra from ruled gratings.
Hagenow, Charles Frederick
Collaborated to discover the phenomenon of total reflection of X-rays and their complete polarization.
Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959
Advisor at Princeton University.
Advised by Compton at University of Chicago on the photon theory of scattering.
Simon, Alfred W.
Collaborated on the Compton effect that illustrates the particle concept of electromagnetic radiation.
Colleagues
Both employed at Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974
Both employed at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.).
Daniels, Farrington, 1889-1972
Both employed at Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at University of Chicago.
DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994
Both employed at Washington University, St. Louis.
Both employed at University of Chicago.
Both employed at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.).
Both employed at University of Chicago.
Worked together on the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Evaluate Use of Atomic Energy in War.
Both employed at University of Chicago and at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at University of Chicago and Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Klopsteg, Paul E. (Paul Ernest), 1889-
Both employed at University of Minnesota.
Konopinski, Emil Jan, 1911-
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Loomis, F. W. (Francis Wheeler), 1889-1976
Both employed at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.
Both employed at University of Chicago.
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at University of Chicago, and at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.).
Primakoff, H. (Henry), 1914-1983
Both employed at Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.).
Both employed at University of Chicago.
Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Simpson, John A. (John Alexander), 1916-2000
Both employed at University of Chicago.
Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Swann, W. F. G. (William Francis Gray), 1884-1962
Both employed at University of Chicago.
Worked together on the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Evaluate Use of Atomic Energy in War.
Tate, John T. (John Torrence), 1889-1950
Both employed at University of Minnesota.
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Thomas, Tracy Y. (Tracy Yerkes), 1899-1983
Both employed at University of Chicago.
Both employed at University of Chicago and Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Weinberg, Alvin Martin, 1915-2006
Both employed at University of Chicago.
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Both employed at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project. Worked together on the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Evaluate Use of Atomic Energy in War.
Williams, John H. (John Harry), 1908-
Both employed at University of Chicago.
Additional
Alexander, Jerome, 1876-1959
Barkla, C. G. (Charles Glover), 1877-1944
Bennett, Ralph D.
Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974
Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-
Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966
DuMond, Jesse W. M. (Jesse William Monroe), 1892-1976
Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966
Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-
Froman, Darol K. (Darol Kenneth), 1906-1997
Fulcher, Gordon S. (Gordon Scott), 1884-
Gingrich, Newell Shiffer, 1906-
Glasstone, Samuel, 1897-1986
Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993
Grosse, Aristid von, 1905-1985
Jesse, William Polk, 1891-1974
Kamen, Martin David, 1913-2002
Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-
Klein, Oskar
Laird, Elizabeth Rebecca, 1874-1969
Langsdorf, Alexander, 1912-
Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946
Loeb, Leonard B. (Leonard Benedict), 1891-
Lucas, René Auguste, 1898-
McFarlan, Ronald Lyman
Miller, Franklin, Jr.
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953
Both were pioneers of cosmic rays and got into a rancorous scientific dispute over the source and character of such radiation.
Neher, Henry Victor, 1904-
Noyes, William A. (William Albert), 1857-1941
Occhialini, Giuseppe, 1907-1993
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Pegram, George Braxton, 1876-1958
Platzman, Robert L. (Robert Leroy), 1918-1973
Rabinowitch, Eugene, 1901-1973
Saha, Meghnad, 1893-1956
Shapiro, Maurice M. (Maurice Mandel), 1915-
Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951
Taylor, Lloyd William, 1893-1948
Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006
Waterfall, Wallace, 1900-1974
Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976
Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees, 1869-1959
Share the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for separate projects.
Institutions
Major Positions
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Research Associate.
University of Chicago. Department of Physics
Professor of Physics and Swift Distinguished Service Professor.
University of Minnesota. Department of Physics and Astronomy
Instructor of Physics.
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Chancellor.
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Department of Physics
Wayman Crow Professor of Physics; Head, Physics Department; and Distinguished Service Professor of Natural Philosophy.
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Research Engineer, Westinghouse Lamp Company.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
President.
President.
Association of Scientific Workers
President.
Brookings Institution
Member, Board of Trustees.
College of Wooster
Obtained BA.
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
General Electric Company. Research Laboratory
John Crerar Library
Member, Board of Trustees.
Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, Ill.)
Member, Board of Trustees.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Member and Chair, Advisory Committee on Uranium Research.
National Advisory Cancer Council (U.S.)
National Research Council (U.S.)
Princeton University. Department of Physics
Obtained MA and PhD.
Royal Society (Great Britain)
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development
Program Chief, S-1 Uranium Section and Member, Executive Committee, Section S-1.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Metallurgical Laboratory
Project Leader, Manhattan project.
University of Cambridge. Department of Physics
National Research Council Fellow.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Alexander Langsdorf papers, 1934-1983.
Libraries. University Archives
Washington University
Campus Box 1061, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA
Arthur Holly Compton papers, 1905-1971.
Libraries. University Archives
Washington University
Campus Box 1061, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA
Arthur Holly Compton research notebooks [microform], 1919-1941.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Arthur Holly Compton research notebooks, 1919-1941.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Jerome Alexander correspondence, 1908-1953.
Rare Books and Manuscripts Division
New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018, USA
Letter to Franklin Miller, Jr. concerning Barkla's work and use of the K, L, J, and M symbols, 1958.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Martin David Kamen papers, 1923-1992 (bulk 1945-1955).
Mandeville Special Collections Library
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Nuclear history [sound recording] : voices of the past; compiled by Glenn Seaborg.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
O. W. Richardson papers, 1897-1959 (bulk 1920-1940).
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Drawer 7219, Austin, TX 78713-7219, USA
Origin of the military atomic energy program [sound recording] / delivered at Sandia Colloquium Series, 1955 May 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
The pioneers of atomic energy [sound recording] : their voices recorded on the 10th anniversary of the Manhattan Project; 1952 December 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Washington University records of Arthur Holly Compton, 1945-1953.
Libraries. University Archives
Washington University
Campus Box 1061, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA
Subject
Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk).
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Arnold Sommerfeld papers ("New" Sommerfeld Nachlass), 1890-1950.
Deutsches Museum
Museumsinsel 1, 80306 Munich, Germany
Atomic year 25 [sound recording] : the story of CP-1 / produced by the Atomic Energy Commission's Argonne National Laboratory.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Atoms for Peace Award records, 1944-1972.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Bruno Rossi papers, 1927-1985.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Century of the atom [sound recording] : ...told through the voices of the scientists who created the nuclear age / a presentation of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ; narrated by Chet Huntley and Glenn T. Seaborg.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Crawford Greenewalt Manhattan Project diary, 1942-1945.
Manuscripts and Archives Department
Hagley Museum and Library
298 Buck Road East, Greenville, DE 19807, USA
Edward Condon papers, circa 1920-1974.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Elizabeth Rebecca Laird papers, 1897-1959.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Eugene Rabinowitch papers, 1954-1964.
The Joseph Regenstein Library. Department of Special Collections
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Gilbert Newton Lewis papers, 1908-1945.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Gordon Scott Fulcher papers, 1897-1970.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
H. Victor Neher papers, 1916-1994.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Henry De Wolf Smyth papers, 1885-1987.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
James Van Allen papers, 1938-1990.
Main Library. Archives
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1420, USA
Jesse W. M. DuMond papers, 1912-1976.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
John Clarke Slater papers, 1908-1976.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Karl Darrow correspondence relating to history of the American Physical Society, 1943-1968.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Karl T. Compton papers, 1906-1961.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Lloyd W. and Esther Bliss Taylor papers, 1896-1980 (bulk 1921-1970).
Archives
Oberlin College
420 Mudd Center, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA
M. N. Saha correspondence, 1920-1954.
Manuscript Section
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
New Delhi, India
MIT Office of the President records of Karl Taylor Compton and James Rhyne Killian, 1930-1959.
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Newell S. Gingrich student notebooks, 1927-1929.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Aristid Victor Grosse, 1974 January 11 and April 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Betty Compton, 1968 April 11 and 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Carl Henry Eckart, 1962 May 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Darol Kenneth Froman, 1976 June 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Darol Kenneth Froman, 1976 June 7.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with David Locke Webster, 1964 May 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edward Teller, 1980 December.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin C. Kemble, 1962 May 11 to 1963 October 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Emil Jan Konopinski, 1982.
Office of University Archives and Records Management
Indiana University
Bryan Hall 201, 107 South Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Oral history interview with Giuseppe Occhialini, 1971 April 5, 6, May 16, 17, and November 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1960 February.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1970 February 23 and August 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Karl K. Darrow, 1964 April 2 and 10 June.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Leonard B. Loeb, 1962 August 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Luis Alvarez, 1967 February 14 and 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Maurice Mandel Shapiro, 1978 May 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Oskar Benjamin Klein, 1962 September 25 to 16 July 1963.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Paul E. Klopsteg, 1963 January 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Paul Sophus Epstein, 1962 May 25, 26 and June 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Philip Morrison, 2002 December 19 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with René Auguste Lucas, 1963 January 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert S. Shankland, 1974 August 20 and 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robley D. Evans, 1972 May 2, 3, 1974 May 5 and 1978 June 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Ronald Lyman McFarlan, 1979 December 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Wallace Waterfall, 1964 April 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Papers of physicists and astronomers in Hoover Library, 1918-1965.
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
West Branch, IA 52358, USA
Peter J. W. Debye papers, 1901-1906 and 1918-1945.
Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Boltzmannstr. 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Physical Review records, 1940-1947.
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Reviews of Modern Physics correspondence of John Torrence Tate, 1928.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert L. Platzman papers, 1944-1952.
The Joseph Regenstein Library. Department of Special Collections
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Samuel Glasstone letters from Arthur Holly Compton, Enrico Fermi, and Christian Møller concerning the origin of the terms nucleon, photon and quantum, 1948-1949.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Scientific experience of Ralph D. Bennett, 1963.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Selected records, including letters, reports, and notebooks by Arthur Holly Compton, Saul Dushman, Irving Langmuir, Frederic Saunders, and Willis R. Whitney.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
The story of CP-1 [videorecording and sound recording].
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
University Archives
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Washington University audiotape collection [sound recordings], 1946-1991.
Libraries. Special Collections
Washington University
Box 1061, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA
William A. Noyes papers, 1870-1942.
University Archives
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
William Francis Gray Swann papers, 1903-1962.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
William P. Jesse scientific autobiography, 1968.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
Atomic quest, a personal narrative
Scientific papers of Arthur Holly Compton: x-rays and other studies
Secondary radiations produced by x-rays, and some of their applications to physical problems
The cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton
X-rays and electrons : an outline of recent X-ray theory
Subject
Arthur H. Compton Physics Today obituary
The Compton effect: turning point in physics [by] Roger H. Stuewer.