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Born September 10, 1892 • Wooster • Ohio
Died March 15, 1962 (aged 69) • Berkeley • California • (Anniversary tomorrow)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1927)
Notable Family Members brother Karl Taylor Compton
Subjects Of Study Compton effect • X-ray • photon

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