Edward Victor Appleton

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.

Sir Edward Appleton
Born	Edward Victor Appleton 6 September 1892(1892-09-06) Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, Ingland, UK
Dee'd	21 Apryle 1965(1965-04-21) (aged 72) Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Naitionality	Inglis
Alma mater	Bradford College St John's College, Cambridge
Kent for	Ionospheric Pheesics[1][2] Appleton layer Demonstrating existence of Kennelly–Heaviside layer
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)
Scientific career
Fields	Pheesics
Institutions	King's College London Varsity o Cambridge Varsity o Edinburgh Cavendish Laboratory
Academic advisors	J. J. Thomson Ernest Rutherford
Notable students	J. A. Ratcliffe Charles Oatley

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.

References

1. Appleton, E. V. (1946). "Two Anomalies in the Ionosphere". Nature. 157 (3995): 691. Bibcode:1946Natur.157..691A. doi:10.1038/157691a0.
2. Appleton, EV (1932). "Wireless Studies of the Ionosphere". J. Inst. Elec. Engrs. doi:10.1049/jiee-1.1932.0144.
3. Ratcliffe, J. A. (1966). "Edward Victor Appleton 1892–1965". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 12: 1–19. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1966.0001.
4. "Sir Edward Appleton (1892–1965)".
5. "Sir Edward Appleton". Physics Today. 18 (9): 113. 1965. doi:10.1063/1.3047706.