What was Compton's nationality?
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Answer
Canadian. Arthur Holly Compton was a Canadian-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his discovery of the Compton effect, which is the scattering of X-rays by electrons. He was born in Wooster, Ohio, but moved to Canada with his family when he was a child. He attended the University of Toronto, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees.
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