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Edward Victor Appleton

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Also known as Sir Edward Appleton, Sir Edward Victor Appleton

English physicist (1892–1965)

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Sir Edward Victor Appleton was a British physicist, astronomer, and researcher. Born in Bradford in 1892, he studied at the University of Edinburgh and St John's College, University of Cambridge. He served as a university teacher at King's College London, the University of London, and the University of Cambridge. His doctoral advisors were J. J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherford.

Appleton received the Nobel Prize in Physics and the IEEE Medal of Honor. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He authored works including *Scientific Progress*, *Scottish Peat*, and *Les Prix Nobel en 1947. The Ionosphere.* He died in Edinburgh in 1965.

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Born
1892
Died
1965
Works
18

Top works

  • Scientific Progress
  • Scottish Peat
  • Scientific progress
  • Les Prix Nobel en 1947. The Ionosphere.
  • Thermionic Vacuum Tubes

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1947

    “for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Victor
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Bradford
Place of death
Edinburgh
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
University of Cambridge
Employer
University of London
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Ernest Rutherford
Field of work
physics
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Appleton.jpg
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Edward Appleton
member of
Indian National Science Academy
date of birth
1892-09-06
date of death
1965-04-21
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language
Sir Edward Victor Appleton
student
Mary Taylor Slow
ethnic group
English people
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Edward Victor Appleton
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his contributions to the knowledge of the ionosphere, which led to the development of radar and shortwave radio.

A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Appleton was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1915. During the First World War, he was an instructor at the Royal Engineers Signals Depot in Fenny Stratford, and served briefly on the Western Front. He brought a captured German thermionic valve back with him. He became the Wheatstone Professor of Physics at King's College London in 1924 and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1927. His primary research interests were how radio waves were created and propagated and unravelling the mystery of how they were reflected by the upper atmosphere.

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