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Karl Taylor Compton
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Karl Taylor Compton was an American physicist and university teacher. Born in Wooster in 1887, he died in New York City in 1954. He was educated at the College of Wooster and Princeton University. Compton worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as a doctoral advisor to Philip M. Morse. His doctoral advisor was Owen Willans Richardson.
Compton was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Physical Society. He participated in the Manhattan Project. He received the Rumford Prize, the Hoover Medal, and the NAS Public Welfare Medal. His sibling was Arthur Holly Compton.
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- 1
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- Scientist Speaks
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1989-12-13
Discography
- Taylor Swift2006
- Fearless2008
- Speak Now2010
- Red2012
- 19892014
- reputation2017
- Lover2019
- folklore2020
- evermore2020
- Fearless (Taylor’s Version)2021
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5 total works indexed
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,854x
- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 29,161x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,501x
- The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners
· 2019 · cited 21,750x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,740x
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- human
- Given name
- Taylor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Wooster
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sibling
- Arthur Holly Compton
- Educated at
- College of Wooster
- Participant in
- Manhattan Project
- Doctoral advisor
- Owen Willans Richardson
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- Karl T Compton c1945.png
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- date of birth
- 1887-09-14
- date of death
- 1954-06-22
- member of
- American Physical Society
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- Karl Taylor Compton
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