An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The American physicist Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962),
the Nobel Prize in Physics 1927, who made important contributions to the study of X- and cosmic rays.
→ Compton catastrophe, → Compton effect, → Compton equation, → Compton era, → Compton recoil, → Compton scattering, → Compton shift, → Compton suppression, → Compton wavelength, → Comptonization.