Edward Victor Appleton was a British physicist who studied the ionosphere, the electrically charged layer of Earth's upper atmosphere that reflects radio waves. His investigations identified a distinct layer, later called the Appleton layer, and his findings had practical importance for shortwave radio and radar. He received the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere, especially for the discovery of the Appleton layer.
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He became the Wheatstone Professor of Physics at King's College London in 1924
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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 contributions to the knowledge of the ionosphere, which led to the development of radar and shortwave radio.
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