Arthur Holly Compton

Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics — 1927

for his discovery of the effect named after him

Together with: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

position held: board member

end time: 3/15/1962
start time: 3/14/1957

board member

end time: 9/20/1956
start time: 6/20/1938
member of: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

start time: 2/24/1927

National Academy of Sciences
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
American Physical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
American Association for the Advancement of Science
notable work: Compton effect
educated at: Bluffton University
Princeton University
University of Chicago
College of Wooster
Cavendish Laboratory
University of Minnesota
occupation: physicist
university teacher
nuclear physicist
theoretical physicist
field of work: atomic physics
employer: University of Chicago
Washington University in St. Louis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
doctoral student: Luis Walter Alvarez
Winston H. Bostick
Darol Froman
Francis Rudolph Shonka
Piara Singh Gill
Robert S. Shankland
Joyce Alvin Bearden

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