Sir Edward Victor Appleton
1892-1965
English physicist who was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physics for investigations of the ionosphere. His experiments on radio waves confirmed the existence of ...
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The existence and location of an ionized reflecting layer in the Earth's atmosphere was identified by Edward Appleton, whose research responded to the first long distance radio messages transmitted ac...
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The British scientist Sir Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965) was a pioneer in radio physics who gained fame through his study of the ionosphere--the upper reaches of the atmosphere.Edward Victor Apple...
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When Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) made his remarkable transatlantic Morse code transmission on December 11, 1901, the world was stunned. Several experts had said such a thing was impossible.Radio wav...
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