Compton

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• A city of southern California, a suburb between Los Angeles and Long Beach.
• Arthur Holly,American physicist. He shared a 1927 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the Compton effect.

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• proper noun Any of several placenames in England from the Old English words for valley and habitation.
• proper noun An English habitational surname from the placenames.

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• noun United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of light (1892-1962)