Edward Victor Appleton - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1947
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Edward Victor Appleton

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1947
for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
9/6/1892
place of birth
Bradford
date of death
4/21/1965
place of death
Edinburgh
Lived
72 years
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1936
  • Royal Society of London
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • George Emeléus
  • Charles Oatley
  • J. A. Ratcliffe
occupation
  • astronomer
  • physicist
  • researcher
  • university teacher
educated at
  • St John's College
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Cambridge
employer
  • University of Cambridge
  • King's College London
  • University of London
field of work
  • physics
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