President of MIT Karl Taylor Compton Hand Signed TLS JG Autographs COA

  
"President of MIT" Karl Taylor Compton Hand Signed TLS. This item is certified authentic by. And comes with their Letter of Authenticity. (September 14, 1887 - June 22, 1954) was a prominent. (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Karl Taylor Compton was born in. On September 14, 1887, the eldest of three brothers including. His father, Elias Compton, was from an old American Presbyterian family, and his mother, Otelia Augspurger Compton, was from an. Family that had recently immigrated to the United States. He came from a remarkably accomplished family in which his brother Arthur became a prominent physicist and sister Mary a missionary. Beginning in 1897, Compton's summers were spent camping at. While attending Wooster public schools in fall, winter and summer.

He took hard labor jobs starting at age eleven to help pay for college, working carrying hods for construction projects, as a farm hand, mule skinner, a book canvasser, in tile and brick factories and surveyed the first mile of paved road in Ohio. In 1902, Compton skipped a grade and went into. S preparatory department for the last two years of high school. In 1908, he graduated from Wooster.

With a bachelor of philosophy degree, then in 1909 his master's thesis A study of the. Electrolytic interrupter was published in. And jointly published several papers on electrons released by ultraviolet light, electron theory and on the photoelectric effect.

Richardson went on to receive the. In some of the areas where Compton contributed.

In 1912, Compton received his Ph.