Asteroid 52337, Compton, was discovered on September 2, 1992 by F. Börngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg. It has a period of 3 years, 252 days.
It was named for American physicist Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962), who discovered the Compton effect, which confirms the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. He received the 1927 Nobel Prize in physics, together with C. T. R. Wilson.
Arthur Compton
The astrological meaning of asteroid Compton seems to be: a bad neighborhood, old before your time.