Background
Compton, Robert Norman was born on November 28, 1938 in Metropolis, Illinois, United States.
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Robert Norman Compton
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Bachelor, Berea College, 1960; Master of Science, U. Florida, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, U. Tennessee, 1966.
Career
Consultant, Oak Ridge (Tennessee) National Laboratory, 1963-1964; physicist, Oak Ridge (Tennessee) National Laboratory, since 1966; professor of chemistry, U. Tennessee, since 1985. Ford Foundation fellow U. Tennessee, 1968, lecturer, since 1969, professor of chemistry, since 1985. Senior visiting science Failover Manager Institute Atomic & Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1978.
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Fellow American Physical Society. Member Optical Society American (William F. Meggars award 1995), American Chemical Society.
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American