Just thirty years earlier, Montacute House, exemplifying the English Renaissance, had been revolutionary ; only a century earlier, the juxtaposing mass of wings that is Compton Wynyates, one of the first houses to be built without complete fortification, had just been completed and was considered modern.

Their two major estates are Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire and Compton Wynyates in Warwickshire.

The elaborate home, named Compton Wynyates, was built in 1481.

In 1997, Compton Wynyates was featured in the second narrative of Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost.

Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire

This rationale is used for both Compton Wynyates and English country house.

Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire, circa 1983

Compton Wynyates is a country house in Warwickshire, England, a Grade I listed building.

A 19th century romaticised view of the gate house at Compton Wynyates.

Numerous fittings at Fulbroke were brought to embellish Compton Wynyates, including the huge bay window full of heraldic glass, which looks into the courtyard from the great hall ; also from the castle came many of the mullioned windows with vine-patterned ornamentation.

Unlike many other houses of the period, Compton Wynyates has not been greatly altered over the centuries.

The Comptons continued to lavish money on this new mansion for the next century or so ; as a consequence, Compton Wynyates has survived almost intact as the perfect Tudor mansion, spared the constant improvements of successive generations.

King Henry VIII stayed many times at Compton Wynyates, and his bedroom window still retains the king's arms in stained glass combined with the arms of Aragon, the home country of his first Queen.

On 12 June 1644, Compton Wynyates was besieged by the Cromwellians, and it fell two days later.

As Compton Wynyates was now the minor family house, it tended to be the country home of the heir.

By this time though, the family fortunes were running low and, as a result, Compton Wynyates began to suffer neglect.

The then Lord Northampton, living at Castle Ashby, ordered Compton Wynyates to be demolished.

In 1835, the 2nd Marquess of Northampton ( the family had been elevated from Earls in 1812 ) visited Compton Wynyates for the first time and found the house in a ruinous state ; he made some minor renovations to prevent complete dereliction.

The 6th Marquess of Northampton ( 1885 – 1978 ) cared greatly for the house and spent a few months each year at Compton Wynyates.

For a short time the panelled rooms of Compton Wynyates were open to the public: the chapel overlooked by the chapel drawing room, the King's bedroom, the heavily panelled drawing and dining rooms with their moulded plaster ceilings, and works of art, such as the crucifixion by Matteo Balducci, were on limited public display.

This was achieved and the Marquess and his family returned to make Compton Wynyates their sole country house.

In 1914, Compton Wynyates served as the inspiration, when the firm of noted American architect John Russell Pope designed Branch House for wealthy scion and financier John Kerr Branch ( 1865-1930 ) and his wife.

In 1977, Compton Wynyates served as a filming location for Disney's Candleshoe, starring Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster and David Niven.

The facade of Compton Wynyates was used briefly at the beginning of the 1978 film Death on the Nile, as the new country home of the heiress Linnet Ridgeway.

Compton Wynyates was also used in the opening sequence of the 1980s television show, Silver Spoons as the Stratton mansion.

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.

The quantum mass of an electron, the Compton wavelength, can be determined through various forms of spectroscopy and is closely related to the Rydberg constant, the Bohr radius, and the classical electron radius.

The von Neumann description of quantum measurement of an observable A, when the system is prepared in a pure state ψ is the following ( note, however, that von Neumann's description dates back to the 1930s and is based on experiments as performed during that time – more specifically the Compton – Simon experiment ; it is not applicable to most present-day measurements within the quantum domain ):

Although these semiclassical models contributed to the development of quantum mechanics, many further experiments starting with Compton scattering of single photons by electrons, first observed in 1923, validated Einstein's hypothesis that light itself is quantized.

Although it is often claimed that the photoelectric and Compton effects require a quantum description of the EM field, this is now understood to be untrue, and proper proof of the quantum nature of radiation is now taken up into modern quantum optics as in the antibunching effect.

Incidentally the name given to this process of a photon interacting with an electron in this way is Compton Scattering.

An example is Compton scattering, with an electron and a photon undergoing elastic scattering.

A variation of the " A Chorus Line " instrumental was used as the basis of Tim Dog's debut single, the Ced Gee-produced " Fuck Compton ", which became a modest hit and is credited with helping to spark the East coast / West coast feud of the mid ' 90s.

Whether objects heavier than the Planck mass ( about the weight of a large bacterium ) have a de Broglie wavelength is theoretically unclear and experimentally unreachable ; above the Planck mass a particle's Compton wavelength would be smaller than the Planck length and its own Schwarzschild radius, a scale at which current theories of physics may break down or need to be replaced by more general ones.

Old Compton Street is now the core of Soho's gay village.

This is known as the Compton effect, and the resulting electrons produce an electric current that is known as the Compton current.

Within the range of gamma ray deposition, simple laws no longer hold as the air is ionised and there are other EMP effects, such as a radial electric field due to the separation of Compton electrons from air molecules, together with other complex phenomena.

The X-ray continuum can arise from bremsstrahlung, black-body radiation, synchrotron radiation, or what is called inverse Compton scattering of lower-energy photons by relativistic electrons, knock-on collisions of fast protons with atomic electrons, and atomic recombination, with or without additional electron transitions.

In Magic Man, Blaine is shown traveling across the country, entertaining unsuspecting pedestrians in New York City, Atlantic City, Dallas, San Francisco, Compton, and the Mojave Desert recorded by a small crew with handheld cameras.

Compton scattering is inelastic scattering of a photon by a free charged particle, usually electron.

Compton scattering is an example of inelastic scattering, because the wavelength of the scattered light is different from the incident radiation.