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• The Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1931
• The Presidential Medal for Merit in 1946 for hastening the termination of hostilities by means of the radar research and development program he directed.
• The Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. in 1947 for his eminence in the application of science to the public welfare.^[2]
• The Washington Award of the Western Society of Engineers in 1947
• Honorary Commander, Civil Division, of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1948
• Knight Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1948
• The Lamme Medal of the American Society for Engineering Education in 1949
• The Hoover Medal jointly from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1950
• The William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement of the Scientific Research Society of America in 1950
• Officer in the French Legion of Honor in 1951
• The Priestley Memorial Award of Dickinson College in 1954 for his contributions to the "welfare of mankind through physics" ^[3]

The lunar crater Compton is named after Compton and his brother Arthur, who was also an influential scientist.Compton was also the recipient of thirty-two honorary degrees.

• Karl Taylor Compton, A Study of the Whenelt Electrolytic Interrupter, Physical Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 161–179, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, Cornell University, 1910.

• Office Of The National Research Council, Biographical Memoirs, National Academies Press, (October 1, 1992), ISBN 0-309-04746-3

• Photograph of Kart Taylor Compton and other members of the NDRC Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine.
• Official MIT Presidential Biography
• Julius A. Stratton's biography of Compton^{[പ്രവർത്തിക്കാത്ത കണ്ണി]}
• Annotated bibliography for Karl Compton from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Archived 2006-08-28 at the Wayback Machine.
• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir