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@Article{Compton:1929:WTMa, author = "Arthur H. Compton", title = "What Things are Made of --- {I}", journal = j-SCI-AMER, volume = "140", number = "2", pages = "110--113", month = feb, year = "1929", CODEN = "SCAMAC", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0229-110", ISSN = "0036-8733 (print), 1946-7087 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "0036-8733", bibdate = "Sat May 18 16:16:16 MDT 2013", bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/eur-phys-j-h.bib; http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sciam1920.bib", URL = "http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v140/n2/pdf/scientificamerican0229-110.pdf", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, fjournal = "Scientific American", journal-URL = "http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican", remark = "According to \cite[page 277]{Kragh:2014:NPP} in eur-phys-j-h.bib, this paper introduced the name `photon' for a light quantum for the first time in the popular science literature. There are several earlier uses of that name in other fields, but they seem to have had no subsequent influence. Gilbert Newton Lewis at the University of California, Berkeley, promoted use of `photon' as early as 1926 in \booktitle{Nature} {\bf 118} 874--875 (29 October 1926), and by 1930, Paul Dirac used that name in the first edition of his famous book, \booktitle{The Principles of Quantum Mechanics}.", }