Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Office of the Chancellor.

Arthur Holly Compton, Chancellor of Washington University, 1945-1953.

Born September 10, 1892, Wooster, Ohio; B.A., College of Wooster, 1913; M.A., Princeton University, 1914; Ph. D., Princeton University, 1916; Instructor in Physics, University of Minnesota, 1916-1917; Research Engineer, Westinghouse Lamp Company, 1917-1919; National Research Fellow in Physics, 1919-1920; Chairman, Department of Physics, Washington University, 1920-1923; Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1927; Professor of Physics, University of Chicago, 1923-1945; Director, Metallurgical Laboratory of the Manhattan Project, 1942-1945; Chancellor, Washington University, 1945-1953; Distinguished Service Professor of Natural Philosophy, Washington University, 1953-1962; died, March 15, 1962, Berkeley, California.