Talk:Arthur Compton

message: Wow! Talk about an entry that needs work! No mention at all that Compton practically ran the Manhattan Project in its early days, or his work during WWII at the Metallurgical Laboratory! I will be back when I have a botty face --Fastfission 00:17, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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message: Arthur Compton's son John Compton, was a, get this a Philosophy professor of mine, specializing in Kant and some existensialism at Vanderbilt University.  Believe he is retired now, but he was a fairly notable guy.  Perhaps some mention should be made of his children?  I don't know if he had any other besides Dr. Compton  Domhail 22:55, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
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message: How about them speed bumps? Or is that not notable?—msh210℠ 15:59, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: I didn't mean to bring confusion. The article I found on him said his Dad was Presbyterian and that he was a deacon at a Baptist church. That was in 1936 though. Anyone know which denominational category he fits?--T. Anthony (talk) 03:34, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
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message: Albert Einstein didn’t prove that the photon exists. He did theorize the quantum effect and received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the photoelectric effect. Arthur Compton did the experiment to prove that the photon exists in 1923. In 1927 is when he received the Nobel Prize for proving the existence of the photon. Read the Nobel Prize paper in which Arthur Compton mentions for the first time the photon as a particle and the experiment that proves it.
The book
X-rays and electrons
An outline of recent X-ray theory
By
Arthur H. Compton Ph. D.
Copyright 1926
By D. Van Nostrand Company
This book includes papers from 1923 on and uses the word photoelectrons for the one particle and electrons for the other. All he did was invent a new word by combining two words then later he shortened  the new word so as not to confuse it with the electron by eliminating electro. The new particles thus became the photons from a shortening of photoelectrons. Read the book.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.171.143.254 (talk) 17:27, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
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message: Given the article name '"Strange Instrument Built to Solve Mystery of Cosmic Rays", April 1932, Popular Science' and this https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/cosmic-rays-william-laurence-robert-millikan-arthur-compton/#:~:text=In%20September%201932%20Compton%20returned,and%20were%20most%20likely%20electrons , it would appear that Compton figured out cosmic rays are particles in 1932.  I don't have access to Johnston's 1967 book "The Cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton", so if someone could pull a date from that, please do. Crimson30 (talk) 20:02, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
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