1927
Arthur H. Compton – Biographical
Biographical
Arthur Holly Compton was born at Wooster, Ohio, on September 10th, 1892, the son of Elias Compton, Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College of Wooster. He was educated at the College, graduating Bachelor of Science in 1913, and he spent three years in postgraduate study at Princeton University receiving his M.A. degree in…
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C.T.R. Wilson – Biographical
Biographical
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was born on the 14th of February, 1869, in the parish of Glencorse, near Edinburgh. His father, John Wilson, was a farmer, and his ancestors had been farmers in the South of Scotland for generations. His mother was Annie Clerk Harper. At the age of four he lost his father, and…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , December 10, 1927 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago for the discovery of the phenomenon named…
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