The Arthur H. Compton House, located at 5637 South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, was the residence of professor Arthur Compton

Arthur Compton

Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect. He served as Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1945 to 1953.-Early years:...

 from the late 1920s until 1945. Arthur Compton was a physicist who discovered the Compton Effect, proving that light

Light

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 has both a particle

Particle physics

Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the existence and interactions of particles that are the constituents of what is usually referred to as matter or radiation. In current understanding, particles are excitations of quantum fields and interact following their dynamics...

 and a wave

Wave

In physics, a wave is a disturbance that travels through space and time, accompanied by the transfer of energy.Waves travel and the wave motion transfers energy from one point to another, often with no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium—that is, with little or no associated mass...

 aspect. Compton received the Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

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in 1927 for this discovery. Arthur was born in Wooster,OH on September 10, 1892 to the parents of Elias Compton, philosophy professor, and Otelia Catheryne Augspurger Compton. Compton died on March 15, 1962, his burial took place in Wooster Cemetery, Wooster, OH.

Accomplishments

• Rumford Prize 1926
• Nobel Prize for Physics 1927
• Matteucci Medal 1930
• Hughes Medal 1940
• St. Louis Walk of Fame
• General Electric Consulting Physicist (1926-45)
• Westinghouse Research Engineer (1917-19)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science President (1942)
• American Association of Scientific Workers President (1939-40)
• American Physical Society President (1934)
• Argonne National Laboratory Board of Governors (1945)
• Brookings Institution Board of Trustees (1956-59)
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Board of Trustees (1949-53)
• Chicago Museum of Science and Industry Board of Trustees (1953-62)
• Committee for Economic Development Board of Trustees(1949-58)
• Institute of International Education
• National Academy of Sciences Board of Trustees (1949-61)
• National Conference of Christians and Jews Co-Chairman (1938-47),
• Board of Directors (1947-58)
• Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents (1950-62)
• Urban League (1954-60)
• Young Men's Christian Association
• Manhattan Project Director, Metallurgical Laboratory
• Lunar Crater (named for Arthur & Karl T. Compton)