Scientists Who Believe The Bible - Arthur Compton
Arthur Compton, Ph.D. Physics, Princeton, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1927.
Arthur Compton was the discoverer of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature
of electromagnetic radiation.
Quote, It was a sensational discovery at the time.
The wave nature of light had been well demonstrated, but the idea that light had both wave and
particle properties was not easily accepted.
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He was the head of the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory, which helped produce
the first atomic bomb.
His team designed the first nuclear reactor.
NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory is named after him.
Compton was a deacon in a Baptist church and a Sunday school teacher in a Presbyterian
church.
His sister Mary married C. Herbert Rice, missionary to India.
Compton wrote, quote,
That Jesus' spirit lives so vitally in men today makes me hope that by following in his
footsteps in my small way, I also may live forever.
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Science and the Supernatural, 1946, as cited in Margery Johnston, The Cosmos of Arthur
Holly Compton, 1967, page 372.
Quote, For myself, faith begins with the realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe
into being and created man.
It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there
is a plan, there is intelligence.
An orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever
uttered, in the beginning, God.
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Compton, Chicago Daily News, April 12, 1936.