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    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...
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  • Edward Appleton may refer to: Edward Victor Appleton (1892–1965), English physicist Ed Appleton (1892–1932), American baseball player This disambiguation...
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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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    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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    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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    1916 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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  • 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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    in the late 1920s by a number of prominent physicists, including Edward Victor Appleton. The term ionosphere and hence, the etymology of its derivatives...
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  • 5 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973) September 6 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965) September 9 –...
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  • in Aberystwyth) was a Welsh physicist. He co-operated with Sir Edward Victor Appleton, who had detected the terrestrial Ionosphere. William John Granville...
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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...
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  • journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.119. Its founding editor was Edward Victor Appleton, and the current editors are Mark Lester and D. Pancheva. "URSI"...
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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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    Academic offices Preceded by James Dewar Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy 1875–1923 Succeeded by Edward Victor Appleton...
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    Chadwick (Physics, 1935) Sir George Paget Thomson (Physics, 1937) Sir Edward Victor Appleton (Physics, 1947) Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett (Physics, 1948)...
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    Bodyline Scientific Committee (19 members, including Duncan Sandys, Edward Victor Appleton, John Cockcroft, Robert Watson-Watt) was formed in September 1943...
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    to be known as splitting the atom using a particle accelerator, and Edward Appleton for demonstrating the existence of the ionosphere. In 1919–1920, Rutherford...
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    Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and was opened by Sir Edward Victor Appleton on 25 July 1957. This group is now known as the Cavendish Astrophysics...
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    1944 Irving Langmuir 1945 Sir Clifford Copland Paterson 1946 Sir Edward Victor Appleton 1947 Sir Leonard Pearce 1948 Mark Oliphant 1949 Charles Samuel Franklin...
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  • the pseudonym Victor Appleton (or, in the case of the Tom Swift Jr. series, Victor Appleton II), while the character was created by Edward Stratemeyer for...
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    David Edward Hughes (16 May 1830 – 22 January 1900), was a British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work...
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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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  • Literature, 1948 Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, Physics, 1948 Edward Victor Appleton, Physics, 1947 Robert Robinson, Chemistry, 1947 Friends Service...
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    Affairs 1955 Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art 1956 Edward Victor Appleton, Science and the Nation 1957 George F. Kennan, Russia, the Atom...
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  • Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917) April 21 Sir Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) Pedro Albizu...
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    sculptors and the first female Armenian sculptor (b. 1913) Physics – Edward Victor Appleton Chemistry – Sir Robert Robinson Medicine – Carl Ferdinand Cori,...
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  • synchronization of electronic oscillators was described in 1923 by Edward Victor Appleton. In 1925, David Robertson, first professor of electrical engineering...
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    the roster, and filling his position with well known radio expert Edward Victor Appleton. In Germany, radar research was not given nearly the same level...
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    of what later was dubbed the Kennelly–Heaviside layer. In 1947 Edward Victor Appleton received the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving that this layer...
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