Karl Taylor Compton
American physicist and university president (1887-1954) · United States · Scientists · Died at 66
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Something wrong?Karl Taylor Compton was an American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948.
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Karl, top left, with his family in Wooster
Teaching his first class at Reed, 1913
Karl Compton in Princeton's Palmer Lab (1929)
Compton's MIT inauguration, with the outgoing President Stratton
Compton appoints Bush as vice president, 1932
Van de Graaff's generator became a basis for patent licensing
Compton, Bush, and others at the first NDRC meetingAwards
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Sibling: Arthur ComptonAbout this person
Karl Taylor Compton was an American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. A researcher in electron physics and early experimenter on the photoelectric effect, Compton spent two decades at Princeton University before accepting the MIT presidency, where he transformed what had been primarily an engineering school into a research university with strong programs in basic science.
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