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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947

"for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer"
Sir Edward Victor Appleton
Sir Edward Victor Appleton
United Kingdom
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
London, United Kingdom
b. 1892
d. 1965
 
 
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