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Edward Victor Appleton

1892 - 1965

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Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English atmospheric physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 "for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Victor Appleton is the 21st most popular physicist (up from 100th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 270th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Physicist.

Edward Victor Appleton was a British physicist who is most famous for his discovery of the ionosphere.

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Among physicists, Edward Victor Appleton ranks 21 out of 851. Before him are Evangelista Torricelli, Erwin Schrödinger, Henri Becquerel, J. J. Thomson, James Prescott Joule, and Ernest Rutherford. After him are Werner Heisenberg, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Enrico Fermi, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Georg Ohm, and Robert Hooke.

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Among people born in 1892, Edward Victor Appleton ranks 5. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien, Haile Selassie, Josip Broz Tito, and Francisco Franco. After him are Louis de Broglie, Mary Pickford, Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, and Manfred von Richthofen. Among people deceased in 1965, Edward Victor Appleton ranks 5. Before him are Winston Churchill, T. S. Eliot, Le Corbusier, and Malcolm X. After him are W. Somerset Maugham, Syngman Rhee, Albert Schweitzer, Farouk of Egypt, Martin Buber, Eli Cohen, and Hermann Staudinger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Victor Appleton ranks 60 out of 8,785. Before him are James Prescott Joule (1818), Anthony Hopkins (1937), John Major (1943), Mary of Teck (1867), Margaret Thatcher (1925), and Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800). After him are John Lennon (1940), John Dalton (1766), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), David Hume (1711), Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900), and Arthur Conan Doyle (1859).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Edward Victor Appleton ranks 6. Before him are Isaac Newton (1643), Stephen Hawking (1942), Michael Faraday (1791), J. J. Thomson (1856), and James Prescott Joule (1818). After him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Robert Hooke (1635), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), and James Clerk Maxwell (1831).

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