Letter : to Professor T. Parnell. 1932.

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Letter : to Professor T. Parnell. 1932.

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Letter written aboard the S.S. Mataroa en route on the Pacific, to Professor T. Parnell, University of Queensland thanking him for his hospitality when the Comptons were visiting Brisbane. Also discusses cosmic ray measurement in Brisbane, Sydney and New Zealand.

1 leaf ; 18 cm.

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Parnell, Thomas, 1880-1948.

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Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962

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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. From the guide to the Arthur Holly Compton notebooks, 1919-1941, 1919-1941, (American Philosophical Society) In 1920, Arthur Holly Co...