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Jun 27, 2024 · Arthur Holly Compton, Ph.D., 1920-1923. A tribute, by Edward U. Condon --. Arthur Holly Compton died on March 15 [1962], in Berkeley California, as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered two weeks earlier. He was sixty-nine.
3 days ago · The Interim Committee in turn established a scientific panel consisting of Arthur Compton, Fermi, Lawrence, and Oppenheimer; the scientific panel offered its opinion not just on the likely physical effects of an atomic bomb, but on its probable military and political impact.
3 days ago · This photon momentum was observed experimentally by Arthur Compton, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1927. The pivotal question then, was how to unify Maxwell's wave theory of light with its experimentally observed particle nature.
1 day ago · Ernest Lawrence brought Oppenheimer into the Manhattan Project on October 21. Oppenheimer was assigned to take over the project's specific bomb-design research by Arthur Compton at the Metallurgical Laboratory.
Jun 11, 2024 · In 1922 American Nobelist Arthur Compton treated the scattering of X-rays from electrons as a set of collisions between photons and electrons.
Jun 19, 2024 · In 1922 the American physicist Arthur Compton measured the change in wavelength of X-rays after they interacted with free electrons, and he showed that the change could be calculated by treating X-rays as made of photons. Compton received the 1927 Nobel Prize for Physics for this work.
4 days ago · Further verification came in 1922 when American physicist Arthur Compton successfully treated the scattering of X-rays from the atoms in a solid as a set of collisions between X-ray photons and the loosely bound outer electrons of the atoms.
Jun 26, 2024 · “In 1923, Arthur Compton discovered that gamma photons possessed sufficient momentum to strongly interact with free or bound electrons. This helped prove that light had both wave and particle properties, a finding that led to Compton receiving the Nobel Prize in physics in 1927,” Fishman said.
Jun 27, 2024 · The photoelectric effect is a low-energy phenomena, and the photons that interact with electrons vanish as soon as they give their energy to them. The Compton effect, on the other hand, is a mid-energy phenomenon in which photons contact electrons and are scattered.
Jun 10, 2024 · The Compton effect is a partial absorption process and as the original photon has lost energy, known as Compton shift (i.e. a shift of wavelength/frequency). The wavelength change of the scattered photon can be determined by 0.024 (1- cos θ), where θ is scattered photon angle.
