"X-Rays as a Branch of Optics"
Lecture
By: Arthur Holly Compton
Date: December 12, 1927
Source: Compton, Arthur H. "X-Rays as a Branch of Optics." Lecture presented at Nobel Prize for Physics awards ceremony, December 12, 1927. Reproduced in "Arthur H. Compton—Nobel Lecture." Available online at http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1927/compton-lecture.... ; website home page: http://www.nobel.se (accessed May 5, 2003).
About the Author: Arthur Holly Compton (1892–1962) was born in Wooster, Ohio, and received his Ph.D. in 1916 from Princeton University. He taught at the University of Minnesota before joining the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I (1914–1918). After the war, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis until 1923, when he became professor of physics at the...
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