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.
Luis Walter Alvarez
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Luis Walter Alvarez was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using t
Arthur Compton
…Thesis The Intensity of X-Ray Reflection, and the Distribution of the Electrons in Atoms (1917) Doctoral advisor Hereward Lester Cooke Doctoral students Luis Walter Alvarez Signature Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T…
Alvarez with a magnetic monopole detector in 1969
Receiving the Collier Trophy from President Harry Truman, White House, 1946
Los Alamos badge photo