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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1913
A Laboratory Method of Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation
1915
A Determination of Latitude, Azimuth, and the Length of the Day Independent of Astronomical Observations
Watching the Earth Revolve
The Distribution of the Electron in Atoms
The Variation of the Specific Heat of Solids with Temperature
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1916
A Physical Study of the Thermal Conductivity of Solids
On the Location of the Thermal Energy of Solids
A Recording X-Ray Spectrometer, and the High Frequency Spectrum of Tungsten
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1917
The Intensity of X-Ray Reflection, and the Distribution of the Electrons in Atoms
The Reflection Coefficient of Monochromatic X-Rays from Rock Salt and Calcite
The Nature of the Ultimate Magnetic Particle (with Oswald Rognley)
1918
The Size and Shape of the Electron
The Non-molecular Structure of Solids
Note on the Grating Space of Calcite and the X-Ray Spectrum of Gallium
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1919
The Law of Absorption of High Frequency Radiation (Abstract)
The Size and Shape of the Electron: I. The Scattering of High Frequency Radiation
A Sensitive Modification of the Quadrant Electrometer: Its Theory and Use (with K. T. Compton)
The Size and Shape of the Electron: II. The Absorption of High Frequency Radiation
Radio-activity and Gravitation (E. Rutherford with A. H. Compton) (Letter)
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1920
A Photoelectric Photometer
Cathode Fall in Neon (with C. C. Van Voorhis)
Radioactivity and the Gravitational Field
Is the Atom the Ultimate Magnetic Particle? (with Oswald Rognley)
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1921
The Absorption of Gamma Rays by Magnetized Iron
Classical Electrodynamics and the Dissipation of X-Ray Energy
Possible Magnetic Polarity of Free Electrons
The Elementary Particle of Positive Electricity
The Degradation of Gamma-Ray Energy
The Wave-length of Hard Gamma Rays
The Magnetic Electron
Secondary High Frequency Radiation (Abstract)
The Polarization of Secondary X-Rays (with C. F. Hagenow) (Abstract)
A Possible Origin of the Defect of the Combination Principle in X-Rays (Abstract)
The Softening of Secondary X-Rays (Letter)
1922
The Width of X-Ray Spectrum Lines
The Spectrum of Secondary X-Rays (Abstract)
The Intensity of X-Ray Reflection from Powdered Crystals (with Newell L. Freeman) (Letter)
Secondary Radiations Produced by X-Rays
Radiation a Form of Matter (Letter)
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1923
The Luminous Efficiency of Gases Excited by Electric Discharge (with C. C. Van Voorhis) (Abstract)
A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of X-Rays by Light Elements
The Total Reflexion of X-Rays
Recoil of Electrons from Scattered X-Rays (Letter)
Absorption Measurements of the Change of Wave-Length Accompanying the Scattering of X-Rays
The Spectrum of Scattered X-Rays
The Quantum Integral and Diffraction by a Crystal
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1924
A Quantum Theory of Uniform Rectilinear Motion (Abstract)
Scattering of X-Ray Quanta and the J Phenomena (Letter)
A Measurement of the Polarization of Secondary X-Rays (with C. F. Hagenow)
The Recoil of Electrons from Scattered X-Rays (with J. C. Hubbard)
The Wave-length of Molybdenum Ka Rays When Scattered by Light Elements (with Y. H. Woo)
The Scattering of X-Rays
A General Quantum Theory of the Wave-length of Scattered X-Rays
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1925
The Effect of a Surrounding Box on the Spectrum of Scattered X-Rays (with J. A. Bearden)
Measurements of B-Rays Associated with Scattered X-Rays (with Alfred W. Simon)
The Density of Rock Salt and Calcite (O. K. DeFoe with A. H. Compton)
The Grating Space of Calcite and Rock Salt (with H. N. Beets and O. K. DeFoe)
On the Mechanism of X-Ray Scattering
Directed Quanta of Scattered X-Rays (with Alfred W. Simon)
X-Ray Spectra from a Ruled Reflection Grating (with R. L. Doan)
Light Waves or Light Bullets?
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1926
Electron Distribution in Sodium Chloride (Abstract)
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1927
X-Rays as a Branch of Optics
Coherence of the Reflected X-Rays from Crystals (G. E. M. Jauncey with A. H. Compton)
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1928
On the Interaction between Radiation and Electrons
Some Experimental Difficulties with the Electromagnetic Theory of Radiation
The Spectrum and State of Polarization of Fluorescent X-Rays
The Corpuscular Properties of Light
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1929
An Attempt to Detect a Unidirectional Effect of X-Rays (with K. N. Mathur and H. R. Sarna)
A New Wave-length Standard for X-Rays
The Efficiency of Production of Fluorescent X-Rays
What Things Are Made Of: I and II
Compton Effect
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1930
The Determination of Electron Distributions from Measurements of Scattered X-Rays
Scattering of X-Rays and the Distribution of Electrons in Helium (Abstract)
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1931
Electron Distribution in Argon, and the Existence of Zero Point Energy
The Optics of X-Rays
A Precision X-Ray Spectrometer and the Wave Length of Mo Ka1
The Uncertainty Principle and Free Will
Assault on Atoms
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1934
The Appearance of Atoms as Determined by X-Ray Scattering (E. O. Wollan with A. H. Compton)
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1935
Incoherent Scattering and the Concept of Discrete Electrons
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1936
Scattering of X-Rays by a Spinning Electron
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1938
An Alternative Interpretation of Jauncey's "Heavy Electron" Spectra
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1940
What We Have Learned from X-Rays
Physical Differences between Types of Penetrating Radiation
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1945
Modern Physics and the Discovery of X-Rays
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1946
The Scattering of X-Ray Photons
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1952
Man's Awareness and the Limits of Physical Science (Abstract)
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1956
The World of Science in the Late Eighteenth Century and Today
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1961
The Scattering of X-Rays as Particles
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Appendix 1: A. H. Compton and O. W. Richardson
Appendix 2: An Exchange of Letters between A. H. Compton and Gordon Ferrie Hull
Appendix 3: The Compton Experiment by Albert Einstein
Bibliography of Compton's Scientific Works
Index