Arthur Holly Compton (PhD, Nobel)

Dr. Arthur Compton, an American physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for the discovery of what is now called the "Compton Effect", where photons (light) interact with accelerated particles. During World War II, Compton worked on the first nuclear weapons helping prepare nuclear materials. Raise into an intellectual environment, both his brothers also earned PhDs from Princeton. It's not surprising that Dr. Compton sees science and the Christian faith to be compatible, given he was an elder of the Second Presbyterian Church in St. Louis and his father was a Presbyterian minister: "For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence, an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning God.'"