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Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962 (95)

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Physicist Arthur Holly Compton worked as a research engineer at Westinghouse Lamp Co. (1917-1919) and studied with Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England (1919). He taught physics at Washington University (1920-1923) and at University of Chicago (1923-1945) and served as Chancellor of Washington University from 1945-1953. In 1920, Arthur Holly Compton was appointed Wayman Crow Professor of Physics, and Head of the Department of Physics at the Washin...