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...Millikan was sure the rays were electrically neutral photons or light bullets. The University of Chicago's beetle-browed Arthur Holly Compton was equally certain they were electrically charged corpuscles. Dr. Compton's stand was strengthened by the piling up of evidence that cosmic ray intensity is less near the Equator than in high latitudes. That seemed to show that the rays were charged particles attracted to the Poles as a compass needle is. Then it was found that more cosmic rays come from the west than from the east. That datum, considered with reference to Earth...
...rose beetle-browed Dr. Arthur Holly Compton (Nobel Prize, physics, 1927). Electricity was tangible, said he, because it could be seen, heard, felt, tasted...
Physicist Arthur Holly Compton Sc.D...
University of Wisconsin (Madison Wis.) Martha McChesney Berry of the Berry Schools (Mount Berry, Ga.).... LL.D. President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology .....LL.D...
...some more or less definite time in the ancient past? . . . The possibility of synthetically preparing chlorophyll and through its action storing chemically the power from the sun in a more efficient way than can be done through the growth of plants is an enticing one.-Physicist Arthur Holly Compton. ¶ The life of man upon this earth is 70 years. A child born today may expect to live 60 years instead of the 35 years it could expect in 1833. -In the 21st Century ... we shall see the majority of mankind approximating three score years and ten.-Dr. Morris Fishbein...