Sir Edward Victor Appleton GBE KCB FRS[3] (6 September 1892 – 21 Aprile 1965) wis an Inglis pheesicist.[4][5] Nobel Prize winner
an pioneer in radio pheesics. He studied, an wis an aa employed as a Lab Technician, at Bradford Technical College frae 1909 tae 1911.
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Sir Edward Appleton |
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| Born | Edward Victor Appleton
6 September 1892(1892-09-06)
Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, Ingland, UK |
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| Dee'd | 21 Apryle 1965(1965-04-21) (aged 72)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
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| Naitionality | Inglis |
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| Alma mater | Bradford College
St John's College, Cambridge |
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| Kent for | Ionospheric Pheesics[1][2]
Appleton layer
Demonstrating existence of Kennelly–Heaviside layer |
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| Awairds | Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1947)
Fellae o the Ryal Society (1927)[3]
Hughes Medal (1933)
Faraday Medal (1946)
Chree Medal (1947)
Ryal Medal (1950)
Albert Medal (1950)
IEEE Medal o Honour (1962) |
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Pheesics |
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| Institutions | King's College London
Varsity o Cambridge
Varsity o Edinburgh
Cavendish Laboratory |
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| Academic advisors | J. J. Thomson
Ernest Rutherford |
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| Notable students | J. A. Ratcliffe
Charles Oatley |
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He wan the Nobel Prize in Pheesics in 1947 for his seminal wirk provin the exeestence o the ionosphere during experiments carried oot in 1924.
