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John Joseph Compton (May 17, 1928 – January 18, 2014) was an American philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University (retired in 1998). Compton was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America (1979).
Overview. John Joseph Compton. (1928) Quick Reference. (1928–) John J. Compton was born on 17 May 1928 in Chicago Illinois. He studied mathematics at the College of Wooster in Ohio, where he received a BA in mathematics ... From: Compton, John Joseph in The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers » Subjects: Philosophy. Reference entries.
They had two sons, Arthur Alan Compton and John Joseph Compton. Compton spent a year as a physics instructor at the University of Minnesota in 1916–17, then two years as a research engineer with the Westinghouse Lamp Company in Pittsburgh, where he worked on the development of the sodium-vapor lamp.
Jan 21, 2014 · John J. Compton, who taught philosophy at Vanderbilt University for more than four decades, died in hospice care Jan. 18. He was 85. Compton joined the philosophy department in 1952, the year it was founded as an independent department at Vanderbilt.
Jan 20, 2014 · John Joseph Compton (b.5/17/28) died Saturday, January 18 after 85 full and joyous years of life. Son of Nobel Prize winning physicist Arthur Holly Compton, John grew up surrounded by a...
- May 17, 1928
- January 18, 2014
John Joseph Compton, American philosophy educator. Recipient Harbison award for distinguished teaching Danforth Foundation, 1966; fellow Belgian-American Education Foundation, 1956-1957, senior fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1974-1975, fellow Center for Humanities, Wesleyan University, 1974-1975.
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Arthur Alan grew up to join the government’s foreign service and John Joseph became a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. In 1945, with his atomic weapons work complete, Compton returned to Washington University.
