Arthur Compton
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Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R. Wilson for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electr
Compton in 1927
Arthur, top middle, with his siblings and parents
Compton at the University of Chicago with graduate student Luis Alvarez next to his cosmic ray telescope, 1933.
Arthur Compton's ID badge from the Hanford Site. For security reasons he used a pseudonym.
Manhattan Project
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The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingd
Arthur Compton
…studied cosmic rays, discovering that they were made principally of positively charged particles. During World War II, Compton was a key figure in the Manhattan Project that developed the first nuclear weapons. His reports were important in launching the project. In 1942, he became a member of the S-1 Executive Committee…
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Hanford B Reactor
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German Experimental Pile Haigerloch April 1945