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Karl Taylor Compton

Affiliations:	1915-1930	Physics	Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
	1930-1948	President	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

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Bio:

(1887 – 1954)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001725.html
https://www.nap.edu/read/2037/chapter/5
https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/karl-t-compton
https://history.aip.org/phn/11401003.html
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/biographies/bio_compton-karl.htm
https://library.nd.edu/chemistry/resources/genealogy/physics/documents/ComptonKT.pdf

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Parents

Owen Willans Richardson	grad student	1912	Princeton
(The influence of the contact difference of potential between the plates emitting and receiving electrons liberated by ultraviolet light on the measurement of the velocities of these electrons)

Children

James Martin Benade	grad student	1917	Princeton
Henry DeWolf Smyth	grad student	1919	Princeton
John Quincy Stewart	grad student	1919	Princeton
Ora Stanley Duffendack	grad student	1922	Princeton
Louis Alexander Turner	grad student	1923	Princeton
Charles Thomas Zahn	grad student	1924	Princeton
Henry Askew Barton	grad student	1925	Princeton
Carl Henry Eckart	grad student	1925	Princeton
Joseph Canon Boyce	grad student	1926	Princeton
Wayne Buckles Nottingham	grad student	1928	Princeton
Philip M. Morse	grad student	1929	Princeton
Joseph Kaplan	post-doc	1928	Princeton
Ernst Carl Gerlach Stückelberg	post-doc	1930	Princeton
Lauriston Calvert Marshall	post-doc	1931	Princeton

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Boyce JC, Compton KT. (1929) HIGHER SPARK SPECTRA OF NEON AND ARGON IN THE EXTREME ULTRA-VIOLET. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 15: 656-8
Loeb LB, Compton KT, Birge RT. (1928) "CENTERS OF RESEARCH," A REPLY. Science (New York, N.Y.). 68: 202-3
Russell HN, Compton KT, Boyce JC. (1928) The Spark Spectrum of Neon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 14: 280-3
Compton KT, Boyce JC, Russell HN. (1928) Extreme ultra-violet spectrum of argon excited by controlled electron impacts Physical Review. 32: 179-185
Compton KT, Boyce JC. (1928) Extreme ultraviolet spectra excited by controlled electron impacts Journal of the Franklin Institute. 205: 497-513
Loeb LB, Compton KT, Birge RT. (1928) "Centers of research," a reply [1] Science. 68: 202-203
COMPTON KT. (1927) The Electric Arc Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 46: 868-883
Costa JL, Smyth HD, Compton KT. (1927) A mechanical maxwell demon Physical Review. 30: 349-353
Compton KT, Morse PM. (1927) Theory of normal cathode fall in glow discharges Physical Review. 30: 305-317
Compton KT, Eckart C. (1925) The diffusion of electrons against an electric field in the non-oscillatory abnormal low voltage arc Physical Review. 25: 139-146

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