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“The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."”

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American physicist born on September 10, 1892, in Illinois, USA, and died on March 15, 1962. Compton is known for his discovery of the Compton effect, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927, which had a significant impact on the development of quantum mechanics. more

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