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Karl Taylor Compton Biography

Physicist

Karl Taylor Compton was a renowned physicist who made significant contributions to the fields of nuclear physics and particle physics. He was born on September 14, 1887, and passed away on June 22, 1954.

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Author:Karl Taylor Compton

“More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.”

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Author:Karl Taylor Compton

“No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.”

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“The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world”

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Book:A scientist speaks: excerpts from addresses by Karl Taylor Compton during the years 1930-1949 when he was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Source: A scientist speaks: excerpts from addresses by Karl Taylor Compton during the years 1930-1949 when he was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order of science makes possible, for the first time, a cooperative creative effort in which every one is the gainer and no one the loser.”

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Author:Karl Taylor Compton

About the Author

Born: September 14, 1887
Died: June 22, 1954
Known for: Physicist
Quotes: 5

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