English Explanatory Dictionary

Compton wavelength

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Of a particle, the wavelength of a photon whose energy is equivalent to that particle's rest energy.

Word forms

Compton wavelength Compton wavelengths

Etymology

Coined by American physicist Arthur Holly Compton in 1923.

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