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Arthur Holly Compton
* 1892 Wooster/Ohio
+ 1962 Berkeley/California
Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist who won the Nobel
Prize in Physics in 1927
for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated
the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
it was a sensational discovery at the time.
2022 J. Giesen