This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

Trevor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist ' Vicky ', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton.

* 2001 – Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.

Eventually Einstein's explanation was accepted as new particle-like behavior of light was observed, such as the Compton effect.

When the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved, one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, made a coded phone call to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee.

* 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.

* 1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.

Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM, FRS ( 8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004 ) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson.

* Children: Michael Francis Compton ( b. 25 November 1940 ) Doreen Crick ; Gabrielle Anne ( b. 15 July 1951 ) and Jacqueline Marie-Therese Nichols ( b. 12 March 1954, d. 28 February 2011 ) Odile Crick ;

When Henry Compton, the Bishop of London, did not ban John Sharp from preaching after he gave an anti-Catholic sermon, James ordered his removal.

In 1926 the chemist Gilbert N. Lewis coined the name photon for these particles, and after 1927, when Arthur H. Compton won the Nobel Prize for his scattering studies, most scientists accepted the validity that quanta of light have an independent existence, and Lewis ' term photon for light quanta was accepted.

Rev., 43: 834 ( 1934 ); L. Alvarez & A. H. Compton, Phys.

The Compton effect was observed by Arthur Holly Compton in 1923 at Washington University in St. Louis and further verified by his graduate student Y. H. Woo in the years following.

The wealthiest citizens were, in order from the highest real and property values, Gaius Whitfield, Goodman G. Griffin, Nathan B. Whitfield, Augustus Foscue, Francis S. Lyon, Gottlieb Breitling, George F. Glover, Simeon Wheeler, Daniel F. Prout, George G. Lyon, Henry W. Reese, Benjamin N. Glover, Cecile Fournier Poole, Evelina H. Henley, David Compton, Jr., Alexander M. McDowell, Augustus Zaiser, Alexander Fournier, Timothy G. Cornish, and Luther G. Houston.

Damron ( deceased ), Marilyn Compton, and Andrew H. Scott.

Twenty-two books were dedicated to him between 1936 and 1998, including works by H. E. Bates, Edmund Blunden, C. Day Lewis, Ray Bradbury, Diana Cooper, Eric Linklater, Compton Mackenzie, Anthony Powell and Leon Edel.

* Sir Thomas Sopwith, ( 1888 – 1989 ), aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the Sopwith Aviation, H G Hawker Engineering, Hawker Aircraft and Hawker Siddeley aircraft companies, lived at Compton House, Cobham in the 1920s.

WSU has had just 10 presidents in its almost 120-year history: George W. Lilley ( 1891 – 1892 ), John W. Heston ( 1892 – 1893 ), Enoch A. Bryan ( 1893 – 1915 ), Ernest O. Holland ( 1916 – 1944 ), Wilson M. Compton ( 1945 – 1951 ), C. Clement French ( 1952 – 1966 ), Glenn Terrell ( 1967 – 1985 ), Samuel H. Smith ( 1985 – 2000 ), V. Lane Rawlins ( 2000 – 2007 ) and current President Elson S. Floyd.

A March 1940 meeting at the University of California at Berkeley concerning the planned 184-inch cyclotron ( seen on the blackboard ), from left to right: Ernest O. Lawrence, Arthur H. Compton, Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Karl T. Compton and Loomis

The following community area properties have been added to the National Register of Historic Places: Chicago Beach Hotel, Arthur H. Compton House, East Park Towers, Site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction, Flamingo-on-the-Lake Apartments, Isadore H. Heller House, Charles Hitchcock Hall, Hotel Del Prado, Hotel Windermere East, Frank R. Lillie House, Robert A. Millikan House, Poinsettia Apartments, Promontory Apartments, Frederick C. Robie House, George Herbert Jones Laboratory, St. Thomas Church and Convent, Shoreland Hotel, German submarine U-505, and University Apartments.

From left to right: Ernest O. Lawrence, Arthur H. Compton, Vannevar Bush, Conant, Karl T. Compton, and Alfred Lee Loomis | Alfred L. Loomis

Barrie and was the inspiration for Nana in the book Peter Pan Others visiting included D. H. Lawrence, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Compton Mackenzie, Bertrand Russell, the historian G. M. Trevelyan, interior decorator Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey.

She had a large circle of literary friends and correspondents, including Katherine Mansfield, Compton Mackenzie and T. H. White.

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C. Compton Mackenzie-Francis Mahony-James Clarence Mangan-Philip Bourke Marston-Theophile Marzials-John Masefield-Gerald Massey-Annie Matheson-George Meredith-Herman Charles Merivale-Alice Meynell-Richard Middleton-William Cosmo Monkhouse-Harold Monro-Mary Montgomerie-T. 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Rolleston-William Caldwell Roscoe-William Stanley Roscoe-Christina Georgina Rossetti-Dante Gabriel Rossetti-Earl of Rosslyn-John Ruskin-George William Russell-Lady Margaret Sackville-George Santayana-William Bell Scott-John Campbell Shairp-William Sharp-Dora Sigerson Shorter-Joseph Skipsey-Douglas Brook Wheelton Sladen-Menella Bute Smedley-Alexander Smith-Walter C. Smith-James Stephens-Robert Louis Stevenson-Charles Swain-Elinor Sweetman-Algernon Charles Swinburne-John Addington Symonds-Arthur Symons-John M. Synge-Sir Henry Taylor-Rachel Annand Taylor-Frederick Tennyson-Lord Tennyson-William Makepeace Thackeray-Francis Thompson-Edward William Thomson-James Thomson ( B. V .)-Henry David Thoreau-Wilfrid Thorley-Walter Thornbury-John Todhunter-Archbishop Trench-Herbert Trench-Charles Tennyson Turner-Samuel Waddington-Thomas Wade-Edward Walsh-Thomas Herbert Warren-Rosamund Marriott Watson-William Watson-Theodore Watts-Dunton-Augusta Webster-Thomas Westwood-Charles Whitehead-Walt Whitman-John Greenleaf Whittier-Oscar Wilde-Sarah Williams-Nathaniel Parker Lewis-Margaret L. Woods-Thomas Woolner-William Butler Yeats

In 1914, the novelist Henry James in an article in The Times named Cannan as one of four significant up-and-coming authors, alongside D. H. Lawrence, Compton Mackenzie and Hugh Walpole.

* Lacki, Jan, Ruegg, H., and Valentine Telegdi ( 1999 ) " The Road to Stueckelberg's Covariant Perturbation Theory as Illustrated by Successive Treatments of Compton Scattering.

The house and grounds in Compton where St. Laurent was born were designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1973.

The work previously carried out at Compton has either moved out to the university sector, ended or has been transferred to the Pirbright Site.

Great Breach and Copley Woods near Compton Dundon is a Nature Conservation Review Woodland Site, owned and managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust.

While other philosophers have developed two-stage models, including William James, Henri Poincaré, Arthur Holly Compton, and Henry Margenau, Dennett defends this model for the following reasons:

Isaac Asimov credits Arthur Compton with defining quanta of energy as photons in 1923.

The foundations of quantum mechanics were established during the first half of the 20th century by Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Louis de Broglie, Arthur Compton, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Born, John von Neumann, Paul Dirac, Enrico Fermi, Wolfgang Pauli, David Hilbert, Wilhelm Wien, Satyendra Nath Bose, Arnold Sommerfeld and others.

* 1892 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1962 )

Through the work of Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Louis de Broglie, Arthur Compton, Niels Bohr, and many others, current scientific theory holds that all particles also have a wave nature ( and vice versa ).

The photon concept was introduced by Albert Einstein in 1905, but it was not broadly accepted until 1922, when Arthur Compton confirmed it by the scattering of X-rays from electrons.

* March 15 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1892 )

* September 10 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1962 )

* Physics – Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Meeting at UC Berkeley concerning the planned 184-inch cyclotron ( seen on the blackboard ): Lawrence, Arthur Compton | A. Compton, Vannevar Bush | V. Bush, James Bryant Conant | J.

In the 1930s he entered into a debate with Arthur Compton over whether cosmic rays were composed of high-energy photons ( Millikan's view ) or charged particles ( Compton's view ).

The professional history of radioactive weaponry may be traced to a 1943 memo from James Bryant Conant, Arthur Holly Compton, and Harold Urey, to Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project and to a 1940 science fiction story, " Solution Unsatisfactory " by Lt. J. G. Robert A. Heinlein, USN ( R ).

* 1896 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers the X-rays while studying electrons in plasma ; scattering X-rays — that were considered as ' waves ' of high-energy electromagnetic radiation -- Arthur Compton will be able to demonstrate in 1922 the ' particle ' aspect of electromagnetic radiation.

* 1922 Arthur Compton studies X-ray photon scattering by electrons demonstrating the ' particle ' aspect of electromagnetic radiation.

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

In his last few years, Hofstadter became interested in astrophysics and applied his knowledge of scintillators to the design of the EGRET gamma-ray telescope of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory named for fellow Nobel Laureate in Physics ( 1927 ), Arthur Holly Compton.

* Arthur Compton ( Physics, 1927 )