Edward Victor Appleton | |
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 Appleton in 1947 | |
| Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh | |
| In office 1 February 1949 – 21 April 1965 | |
| Chancellor | Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh |
| Preceded by | Sir John Fraser |
| Succeeded by | Lord Swann |
| Born | 6 September 1892 Bradford, England |
| Died | 21 April 1965 (aged 72) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Resting place | Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Discovery of the ionosphere Appleton–Hartree equation |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | NPL University of Edinburgh University of Cambridge King's College London |
| Academic advisors | Ernest Rutherford J. J. Thomson |
| Notable students | |
Sir Edward Victor Appleton GBE KCB FRS[1] (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist,[2][3] Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer".[4] 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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- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 20 April 2024.