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Arthur Holly Compton
'''Compton Scattering''' is the collision process between a gamma ray and a bound atomic electron where only part of the gamma-ray energy is transferred to the electron.
'''Compton Scattering''' is the collision process between a gamma ray and a bound atomic electron where only part of the gamma-ray energy is transferred to the electron.
The effect was at first observed by [[Arthur Holly Compton]] in 1923 at Washington University in St. Louis. Compton was rewarded the 1927 [[Nobel Prize]] in Physics for this discovery.
The probability for Compton scattering is approximately proportional to Z, and for energies greater than 500 [[keV]] approximately proportional to 1/E<sup>gamma</sup>
The probability for Compton scattering is approximately proportional to Z, and for energies greater than 500 [[keV]] approximately proportional to 1/E<sup>gamma</sup>
[[category:physics]]
[[category:physics]]