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Edward Victor Appleton

English physicist

Died when: 72 years 227 days (871 months)
Star Sign: Virgo

 

Edward Victor Appleton

Sir Edward Victor Appleton GBE KCB FRS (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics.

He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911.He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.


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