Arthur H. Compton (Arthur Holly Compton) was born on Saturday, September 10, 1892 in Wooster and he was a famous physicist from United States of Presbyterian religion.

Life in Brief:

- Being born on Sep 10, Arthur H. was a Virgo.
- his ethnicity: White.
- his mother's name: Otelia Catheryne Augspurger Compton.
- his father's name: Elias Compton.
- Brothers : Karl Taylor Compton, Wilson Martindale Compton.
- Sister : Mary Elesia Compton.

Arthur H. Compton had studied at Wooster High School, Wooster, OH (in 1909) and then he attended the BS, College of Wooster (in 1913).

Arthur H. dated Betty Charity McCloskey (wife).

He died on Thursday, March 15, 1962, in Berkeley; cause of death: stroke.

Famous Why : Discovered the Compton Effect.



Arthur H. Compton Lists

	1892 births
	1962 deaths
	American Nobel laureates
	American physicists
	American Presbyterians
	Chancellors of Washington University in St. Louis
	College of Wooster alumni
	Manhattan Project people
	Nobel laureates in Physics
	Particle physicists
	People from Wayne County, Ohio
	Princeton University alumni
	Quantum physicists
	Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
	Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)
	College of Wooster
	Theoretical physicists
	Washington University in St. Louis faculty
	X-rays
	Guggenheim Fellows

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Date Added: 04 June '08

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