아서 콤프턴

소개

아서 콤프턴(Arthur Holly Compton, 1892년 9월 10일-1962년 3월 15일)은 미국의 물리학자이다. 콤프턴 효과를 발견한 공로로 1927년 노벨 물리학상을 수상하였다.

Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R. Wilson for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. It was a significant discovery at the time; the wave nature of light had been well-demonstrated, but the idea that light had both wave and particle properties was not easily accepted.