Question

For what did Arthur Holly Compton win Nobel Prize for Physics?
a) Discovery of cadmium
b) Research on cathode rays
c) Discovery and explanation of change in the wavelength of X-Rays when they collide with
electrons in metals
d) Research on gravity

Answer 1

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927. TheNobel Prize in Physics 1927 was divided equally between Arthur Holly Compton "for his discovery of the effect named after him" and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson "for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour

Answer 2

discovery of cadmium