- Arthur Holly Compton
-
1/2 of prize
USA
born 1892, died 1962
CA - Washington University, St.
Louis, Missouri, USA
AA - Washington University
WA - Washington University
"for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour"
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
-
1/2 of prize
UK
born 1869 (Glencorse, Scotland), died 1959
CA - Sidney Sussex College,
University of Cambridge, England, UK
AA - Cavendish Laboratory &
Sidney Sussex College, University
of Cambridge, England, UK
WA - Cavendish Laboratory
Additional Information:
Arthur Holly Compton:
- Arthur Holly Compton Papers: Washington University Libraries Archive
- Compton biography & reproduction of "A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of X-Rays by Light Elements": American Institute of Physics Center for the History of Physics' Selected Papers of Great American Physicists
- Black and white photo of Compton plus his experimental device
- Arthur Holly Compton Award: American Nuclear Society
- Compton as Director of the "Met Lab": Health Physics Society: Figures in Radiation History
- Children of the Manhattan Project: Compton
- St. Louis (Missouri) Walk of Fame
- Compton Effect: Definition, equation and interactive diagram
- Compton Scattering
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson:
- Charles Thompson Rees Wilson Biography: Cambridge University
- Definition of a Cloud Chamber (CERN Laboratory)
- The Cloud Chamber: Wilson, 1912: Cambridge University
- How to Build a Cloud Chamber: Cornell
- Cloud Chamber from "Bizarre Stuff"
- Cloud Chamber photograph showing one of earliest evidences of the positron: Lawrence Berkeley Lab
- Cloud Chamber's "Dark Matter" CD