The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927
Awarded on: 1927-11-10
"for his discovery of the effect named after him"
Affiliations:
- University of Chicago – Chicago, IL, USA
Arthur Holly Compton
Born: 1892-09-10 in Wooster, OH, USA
Gender: male
Field: American particle physicist (1892–1962)
Biography
Arthur Holly Compton was an American particle physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R. Wilson for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. It was a sensational discovery at the time: the wave nature of light had been well-demonstrated, but the idea that light had both wave and particle properties was not easily accepted.