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.
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 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 September 1892 Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 21 April 1965 (aged 72) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Ionospheric Physics Appleton layer Appleton–Hartree equation Demonstrating existence of Kennelly–Heaviside layer |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1947) Fellow of the Royal Society (1927) Hughes Medal (1933) Faraday Medal (1946) Chree Medal (1947) Royal Medal (1950) Albert Medal (1950) IEEE Medal of Honor (1962) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | NPL University of Edinburgh University of Cambridge King's College London |
| Academic advisors | J. J. Thomson Ernest Rutherford |
| Notable students | J. A. Ratcliffe Charles Oatley Karl George Emeléus |
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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