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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927
"for his discovery of the effect named after him"
"for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour"
Arthur Holly Compton
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
1/2 of the prize
1/2 of the prize
USA
United Kingdom
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
b. 1892
d. 1962
b. 1869
(in Glencorse, Scotland)
d. 1959
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