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}} Sir Edward Victor Appleton 〔 (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist. Nobel Prize winner and pioneer in radio physics, Sir Edward Appleton, studied and was also employed as a Lab Technician at Bradford Technical 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. ==Biography== Appleton was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Peter Appleton, a warehouseman, and Mary Wilcock〔http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 and educated at Hanson Grammar School. In 1911, aged 18, he was awarded a scholarship to attend St John’s College, Cambridge University where he graduated with First Class Honours in Natural Science with Physics in 1913. During the First World War he joined the West Riding Regiment, and later transferred to the Royal Engineers. After returning from active service in the First World War, Appleton became assistant demonstrator in experimental physics at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1920. He was professor of physics at King's College London (1924–36) and professor of natural philosophy at the University of Cambridge (1936–39). From 1939 to 1949 he was secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Knighted in 1941, he received the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the knowledge of the ionosphere,〔 which led to the development of radar. From 1949 until his death in 1965, he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh. In 1956, the BBC invited him to deliver the annual Reith Lectures. Across a series of six radio broadcasts, titled ''Science and the Nation'', Appleton explored the many facets of scientific activity in Britain at the time. Appleton is buried in Edinburgh's Morningside Cemetery〔http://www.findagrave.com〕 with his wife Helen Lennie (d.1983). The grave lies towards the extreme western side near the new housing to the north-west. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Victor Appleton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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