Days before an important conference in 1923, Arthur Compton was sitting in his room late one night. He was exhausted, but his mind kept racing about what his discovery meant. He knew that his theory ...

Arthur J. Compton, 80, of Nicholson, died Sunday at Allied Services Hospice, Scranton, following a short illness. He was the husband of the former Geraldine F. Petz, who died October 25, 2018. Born ...

Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R. Wilson for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of ...

Arthur Compton (left, shown here with Francis Simon) used this equipment to prove that light, in the form of x rays and gamma rays, acts like a stream of tiny billiard balls—not waves—when it scatters ...

A devout man, like his colleagues Robert Andrews Millikan, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Albert Einstein, is Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton. Irreverent University of Chicago students nickname ...