The Arthur H. Compton House is a historic house located at 5637 South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1905 and designed by architects Holabird & Roche, the 2+1⁄2-story brick building served as the residence of physicist Arthur Compton from 1928 until 1945. It is situated in the Hyde Park neighborhood, northeast of the University of Chicago campus.
Compton was a native of Wooster, Ohio, and earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. In 1923, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago and published a paper on the Compton Effect. This work proved that light has both a particle and a wave aspect, an achievement for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927.
The house follows a central hall plan and has remained little altered since Compton's period of ownership. Outside, a flat-roof single-story enclosed porch extends across the front of the building. The property was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
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