Research notebooks, 1919-1941.

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Research notebooks, 1919-1941.

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The notebooks, for the most part, record Compton's activities as a creative research physicist, as reflected in the detailed calculations, experimental data, sketches of apparatus, and notes on the work of other physicists. In this regard, the notebooks may be divided into two groups: those dealing with x-ray and x-ray research (1919-1930), and those dealing with cosmic ray research (1930-1941). Compton's work as an educator is documented by course outlines, drafts and outlines of lectures, notes to students, drafts of book reviews and letters, and notes on conferences and symposia; his work as an organizer and administrator of scientific research projects is documented in the drafts of requests for funds, notes on budgetary matters, and drafts of reports; his attempts to interpret the results of science and to illustrate the scientific method to non-scientists is displayed in outlines and drafts of popular addresses. Throughout the notebooks are found numerous instances of Compton's sense of historical perspective, and of his deep concern with the relationship of science to philosophy and religion. Five notebooks were compiled by physicists other than Compton, who later made entries in some of them, and one was compiled entirely by others in the course of experiments he was directing.

2 linear ft. (2 boxes)

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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...