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    Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its successors, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series...
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    Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 "for his investigations...
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  • magnetized plasma. The Appleton–Hartree equation was developed independently by several different scientists, including Edward Victor Appleton, Douglas Hartree...
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  • books are credited to the pseudonym Victor Appleton (or, in the case of the Tom Swift Jr. series, Victor Appleton II), while the character was created...
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    credited to the collective pseudonym "Victor Appleton". The 33 volumes of the second series use the pseudonym Victor Appleton II for the author. For this series...
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    head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, attributed to the pseudonymous Victor Appleton II, and published in hardcover by Grosset & Dunlap. Most of the books...
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    Physical Society of London, it was renamed in 2008 to commemorate Edward Victor Appleton, winner of the Nobel Prize for proving the existence of the ionosphere...
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  • family Appleton P. Clark Jr. (1865–1955), American architect Victor Appleton, house pseudonym used by authors of the Tom Swift book series Appleton Dock...
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    Rees Wilson (Physics 1927), Owen Richardson (Physics 1928) and Edward Victor Appleton (Physics 1947). Only Arnold Sommerfeld's record of mentorship offers...
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    many books for the Stratemeyer Syndicate under various pseudonyms. As Victor Appleton, he wrote about the enterprising Tom Swift; as Laura Lee Hope, he is...
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    1911, written by Stratemeyer Syndicate writers using the pen name Victor Appleton. It is Volume 10 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by...
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    English county of West Yorkshire. The school is named after Sir Edward Victor Appleton, a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947. The school...
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    Rifle, a book written by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Victor Appleton and featuring Cover's childhood hero, Tom Swift. The name made sense...
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    the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap by Victor Appleton Tom and his father are arguing about Tom's latest idea, a photo telephone...
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  • role in space research. In 1974, it became the Appleton Laboratory, in honour of Sir Edward Victor Appleton, who had received the 1947 Nobel prize for his...
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  • especially with juvenile literature. Examples include Watty Piper, Victor Appleton, Erin Hunter, and Kamiru M. Xhan. Another use of a pseudonym in literature...
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  • Dawlish") 1947–1960 8 Alex Archer series Tessa Duder 1987–1993 Tom Swift Victor Appleton 1910–1941 William Dougherty, John Almquist, Richard Sklar, James Duncan...
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    the late 1920s by a number of prominent physicists, including Edward Victor Appleton. The term ionosphere and hence, the etymology of its derivatives, was...
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  • previous three series, the series was written under the pseudonym Victor Appleton. Unlike the previous series, it was not created by the Stratemeyer...
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  • the Stratemeyer Syndicate's series. However, all gave the author as Victor Appleton, as with the previous series. This series is primarily set in outer...
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    Alfred Ewing 1929 Thomas Henry Holland 1944 John Fraser 1948 Edward Victor Appleton 1965 Michael Swann 1974 Hugh Robson 1979 John Harrison Burnett 1987...
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    Front side (obverse) of the Nobel Prize Medal for Physics presented to Edward Victor Appleton in 1947...
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    pseudonym Victor Appleton) Monster Machine ("Tom Swift" series), Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1991. ISBN 978-0671678272 (Under pseudonym Victor Appleton) Aquatech...
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    between 1925 and 1935 by Grosset & Dunlap. The books were credited to Victor Appleton, a house name used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, but the actual writer...
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  • the house pseudonym Victor Appleton. The Black Dragon (1991) [as by Victor Appleton] The Negative Zone (1991) [as by Victor Appleton] "McCay, Bill". The...
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  • pseudonym Laura Lee Hope, and Tom Swift in 1910 under the pseudonym Victor Appleton. Stratemeyer published a number of books under his own name, but the...
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    Joseph Muller Hermann Hesse Emily Greene Balch; John Mott 1947 Edward Victor Appleton Robert Robinson Carl Ferdinand Cori; Gerty Cori; Bernardo Houssay André...
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  • Company Edward Victor Appleton (1892–1965), English Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his research on the ionosphere Edwin Nelson Appleton (1877–1937)...
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  • Chapman 1913 1915 n/a 5 Motion Picture Chums Victor Appleton 1913 1916 n/a 7 Moving Picture Boys Victor Appleton 1913 1922 n/a 15 Outdoor Girls Laura Lee...
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  • boy inventor in the Tom Swift Jr. science fiction novel series by Victor Appleton II. Robby the Robot originated as a supporting character in the 1956...
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