[DOC] [TLE] Arthur Compton - Wikipedia [PAR] Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892  March 15, 1962) was an American 
physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 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 ..... Compton invented a more gentle, elongated, and ramped version of the
... [DOC] [TLE] Arthur Holly Compton | American physicist | Britannica.com [PAR] American physicist and joint winner, with C.T.R. Wilson of England, of the Nobel 
Prize for ... and thus helped to establish the legitimacy of the still-radical quantum 
theory. ... in initiating the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb. 
... of light was highlighted by the American physicist Arthur Holly Compton in an... [DOC] [TLE] Arthur H. Compton - Biographical - Nobelprize.org [PAR] Arthur Holly Compton was born at Wooster, Ohio, on September 10th, 1892, the 
son of ... that the scattered quanta have less energy than the quanta of the 
original beam. ... For this discovery, Compton was awarded the Nobel Prize in 
Physics for ... (American Academy of Arts and Sciences), 1927; Gold Medal of 
Radiological... [DOC] [TLE] Arthur Compton - American Physical Society [PAR] Compton was a professor at Washington University, studying the scattering of X-
rays, when he discovered the effect that is named after him in 1922. ... energy 
and wavelength discovered in 1900 by German physicist Max Planck. ... This 
effect demonstrates that light cannot be explained purely as a wave phenomenon
. [DOC] [TLE] Einstein and the photoelectric effect - The Worlds of David Darling [PAR] Photoelectric effect caused by light falling onto the metal sodium. ... The turning 
point came when he saw how Planck's idea of energy quanta ... in a desperate 
effort to patch up classical theory, but to the actual radiation that's emitted or 
absorbed. .... the reality of radiation quanta was the American physicist Arthur 
Compton. [DOC] [TLE] Quantum Theory Timeline - The Particle Adventure [PAR] Arthur Compton discovers the quantum (particle) nature of x rays, thus ... G.N. 
Lewis proposes the name "photon" for a light quantum. ... Max Born, after 
learning of the Dirac equation, said, "Physics as we know it will be over in six 
months.". [DOC] [TLE] Arthur Compton - Biography, Facts and Pictures - Famous Scientists [PAR] 6 days ago ... Arthur Compton discovered that light can behave as a particle as well as a wave, 
and he coined the word photon to describe this newly. ... With two well-educated 
parents, Arthur was brought up in a house ... This was the beginning of the 20th 
century quantum revolution that changed physics dramatically... [DOC] [TLE] arthur holly compton - National Academy of Sciences [PAR] 1933 and in 1939 she was named "American mother of the year." .... Compton's 
discovery created a sensation among the physicists of that time. It was not... [DOC] [TLE] Arthur Holly Compton 1892-1962 - American Institute of Physics [PAR] When Arthur Compton graduated from college he considered taking up a 
religious career. ... Compton was named instructor in physics at the University of 
Minnesota, one of a ... A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of X-Rays by Light 
Elements. [DOC] [TLE] SparkNotes: Albert Einstein: Quantum Theory [PAR] A summary of Quantum Theory in 's Albert Einstein. ... one of the only scientists to 
take seriously the existence of light quanta, or photons. ... In this year, the 
American physicist Arthur Compton measured the transfer of ... inRead invented 
by Teads ... However, Einstein could not accept a probabilistic theory as the final 
word. [DOC] [TLE] Arthur Holly Compton facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] Get information, facts, and pictures about Arthur Holly Compton at Encyclopedia.
com. ... physics in 1927 for his discovery of the effect that bears his name, was a 
son ... Their children were Arthur Alan, an officer in the U.S. State Department, 
and ... explanations of the Compton effect as a quantum process

Question: It was American physicist Arthur Compton who came up with this name for a quantum of light
Answer: Photon