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They include English scientist and clergyman John Needham in 1713; physicist Arthur Holly Compton in 1892; dancer Adele Astaire in 1896; English critic Cyril Connolly in 1903; film director Robert Wise in 1914; golfer
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Wide acceptance of the photon picture didn’t come until 1923, when Arthur Holly Compton did a famous series of experiments with X-rays that demonstrated unmistakably particle-like behavior from light: he showed that photons carry momentum, and this momentum is transferred to other particles in collisions.
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009
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University of Chicago physicist Arthur Holly Compton had a good lab, was a Nobel Prize winner, and didn’t have a prickly personality like so many of the genius prima donnas (e.g. Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Robert Oppenheimer) who came to work for him.
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