Arthur Compton

Here are a few examples taken from One World or None, a compendium of short pieces written by heavy hitters such as Arthur Compton, Niels Bohr, Hap Arnold and Albert Einstein.

ArmsControlWonk michael_krepon 2009

Millikan thought the rays were just that: electromagnetic radiation, but in 1930 Arthur Compton of the University of Chicago proposed that they were subatomic particles.

Diagnosing "Cosmic Fever" Johnny Pez 2010

The same awesome possibility, fusion of atmospheric nitrogen and oceanic hydrogen, turning the planet into a chain-reacting bomb, was considered a few months later by Edward Teller, Robert Oppenheimer, Arthur Compton, Hans Bethe and other physicists.

Planet Eaters 2008

When the Nobel Prizewinning American physicist Arthur Compton recruited Wigner in September 1941, he found the Hungarian almost in tears, as he urged meto help get the atomic weapons program rolling.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

When the Nobel Prizewinning American physicist Arthur Compton recruited Wigner in September 1941, he found the Hungarian almost in tears, as he urged meto help get the atomic weapons program rolling.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

I believe you have Karl Compton, sitting right next to Loomis, and Arthur Compton is next to Lawrence.

Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War II 2002

Arthur Compton described the opposite process - in which high energy photons collide with stationary particles - while at Washington University, work for which he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1927.

Space News From SpaceDaily.Com 2009

In 1922, Arthur Compton observed and reported what is now called the

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

In 1922, Arthur Compton observed and reported what is now called the

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

In 1922, Arthur Compton observed and reported what is now called the

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008