English physicist and Nobel Prize recipient (1892–1965)
Sir
Edward Victor Appleton
GBE KCB FRS
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
(1892-09-06)6 September 1892 Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died
21 April 1965(1965-04-21) (aged 72) Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma mater
St John's College, Cambridge
Known for
Ionospheric Physics[2][3] Appleton layer Appleton–Hartree equation Demonstrating existence of Kennelly–Heaviside layer
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1947) Fellow of the Royal Society (1927)[1] 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
Sir Edward Victor AppletonGBE KCB FRS[1] (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist,[4][5] 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".[6] 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.
^ abRatcliffe, 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. S2CID 73060633.
^Appleton, E. V. (1946). "Two Anomalies in the Ionosphere". Nature. 157 (3995): 691. Bibcode:1946Natur.157..691A. doi:10.1038/157691a0. S2CID 11429642.
^Appleton, EV (1932). "Wireless Studies of the Ionosphere". Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. 71 (430): 642–650. doi:10.1049/jiee-1.1932.0144.
^"BBC – History – Sir Edward Appleton". BBC.
^"Sir Edward Appleton". Physics Today. 18 (9): 113. 1965. doi:10.1063/1.3047706.
^"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
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