Samuel King Allison
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Samuel King Allison was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. A professor who studied X-rays, he was director of the
Samuel King Allison
Allison's Los Alamos Laboratory identity photo
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
Samuel King Allison
…x-rays were an important means of investigating atomic structures, but the concept that light had both wave and particle properties, as demonstrated by Arthur Compton, was not universally accepted. William Duane from Harvard spearheaded an effort to prove that Compton's interpretation of the Compton effect was wrong…
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.