People

Compton, Karl Taylor

1887-1954


President of MIT 1930-1949; MIT Corporation Member 1930-1943, Chairman of the Corporation 1948-1954; member, National Defense Research Committee

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Dr. Compton receiving the Medal for Merit from Lt. Gen. O. W. Griswold, April 2 1946 [KTCompton_039]

Hardy Colorimeter. L to R: Vannevar Bush, Arthur C. Hardy, Karl T. Compton, Samuel C. Prescott, Harry M. Goodwin. [PH_119]

Karl Compton (center) receiving plaque to Institute from U.S. Navy for effective personnel training during WWII [KTCompton_040a]

Karl Compton in transport plane with model of outrigger canoe on inspection tour of Army installations in the Southwest Pacific. [KTCompton_022]

Karl Compton with Robert Van de Graaff and apparatus [KTCompton_032]

Karl Compton with Rowena (Rayman) about 1910 [KTCompton_028]

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Mar.12, 1949 - ATOMIC SCIENTIST HONORED . Principal figures at a dinner in the Hotel Somerset were, from left: Dr. Karl T. Compton, chaiman of the M.I.T. Corporation; Dr. James R. Killian, Jr., president of M.I.T.; Prof. Bruno Rossi, M.I.T. physicist, who received the Research Corporation award, and Dr. Joseph W. Barker, president of the Research Corporation. [BBR_49]

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Placing one of the 25-ton magnets of the big cyclotron at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on its foundation. Beneath the magnet was placed a time-capsule of brass. 1/18/39. [RDE_12b]

Placing one of the 25-ton magnets of the big cyclotron at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on its foundation. [RDE_12a]

Planning the giant cyclotron, Berkeley, March 1940 [KTC_149]

President Compton demonstrates new radium detector developed by Prof. Evans. Technology Review Feb 1936. [KTC_20]

President Compton holds a "time capsule" packed with scientific literature which he sealed in a great slab of iron which will form the base of the big machine. Looking on is Dr. Robley D. Evans, in charge of cyclotron research. [RDE_12]

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