biography
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Appleton, Sir Edward (Victor)
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| lived:
| (1892–1965)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and worked at the Cavendish Laboratory from 1920, becoming professor of physics at London University in 1924. In 1936 he returned to Cambridge as professor of natural philosophy, and became secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (1939). In 1949 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University. In 1947 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his contribution towards exploring the ionosphere. His work revealed the existence of a layer of electrically charged particles in the upper atmosphere (the Appleton layer) which plays an essential part in making radio communication possible between distant stations. |
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