Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Arthur Compton (American Physicist)

Arthur Holly Compton (1892–1962) was an American physicist who developed the Compton Effect, for which he won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics. He also played a significant role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Born in Wooster, Ohio, Compton studied at Princeton and Cambridge and held academic positions at Washington University in St Louis and Chicago University. Based on Albert Einstein’s proposal that light involves photons, Compton discovered that wavelengths of X-rays increase when the rays collide with electrons. Called the “Compton effect,” this discovery helped establish that X-rays could function as particles.

Leader of the initial phase of the Manhattan Project that aimed to develop the atomic bomb, Compton worked with Enrico Fermi to create the first sustained nuclear chain reactor. This creation heralded the means for the controlled release of nuclear energy.

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Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
—Arthur Compton
Topics: Discovery

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person’s welfare affects that of every other.
—Arthur Compton
Topics: Family

Despite some of the horrors and barbarisms of modern life which appall and grieve us, life in the twentieth century undeniably has-or has the potentiality of-such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.
—Arthur Compton
Topics: Reflection, Life

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