Karl Taylor Compton
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 71 years ago |
| Date of birth | September 14,1887 |
| Zodiac sign | Virgo |
| Born | Wooster |
| Ohio | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | June 22,1954 |
| Died | New York |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Siblings | Arthur Compton |
| Job | Physicist |
| Education | The College of Wooster |
| Princeton University | |
| Books | A Scientist Speaks: Excerpts from Addresses by Karl Taylor Compton |
| The Battle of the Alchemists | |
| Scientists Face the World of 1942 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Biographical Memoir of Augustus Trowbridge, 1870-1934: National Academy of Sciences, V18 | |
| Awards | Rumford Prize |
| Public Welfare Medal | |
| Hoover Medal | |
| IEEE Lamme Medal | |
| Washington Award | |
| William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement | |
| Nephew | John Joseph Compton |
| Arthur Alan Compton | |
| Notable student | Henry DeWolf Smyth |
| Philip M. Morse | |
| Carl Eckart | |
| Ora S. Duffendack | |
| John Quincy Stewart | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 622180 |
Karl Taylor Compton Life story
Karl Taylor Compton was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1930 to 1948.
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