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Arthur Compton 1927
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Mondadori Publishers
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Public domain
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Wikimedia Commons
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Arthur Compton 1944
By
ACME
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Public domain
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Wikimedia Commons
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康普顿

康普頓
Kāngpǔdùn
proper noun #35,235

Meanings

  1. 1 Compton (English surname; U.S. city in Los Angeles County)
  2. 2 Arthur Compton (Nobel-laureate physicist, Compton effect)

About Arthur Compton

1892–1962 · 科学家 scientist

American physicist who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for the 康普顿效应 (Compton effect), the scattering of X-rays by electrons, which showed that light also behaves as particles.

Examples

HSK 6
康普顿效应是物理学的重要发现。
Kāngpǔdùn xiàoyìng shì wùlǐxué de zhòngyào fāxiàn.
The Compton effect is an important discovery in physics.
HSK 7-9
嘻哈组合N.W.A来自加州的康普顿。
Xīhā zǔhé N.W.A láizì Jiāzhōu de Kāngpǔdùn.
The hip-hop group N.W.A comes from Compton, California.

Tips

culture
The same 康普顿 is also Compton, the Los Angeles city that N.W.A made famous: the 2015 film about the group, Straight Outta Compton, is 《冲出康普顿》 in Chinese, 'breaking out of Compton'.

Stroke Order

康 kāng
普 pǔ
顿 dùn