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Edward Victor Appleton

Edward Victor Appleton

British physicist (1892–1965)
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🗓️ 21 April 1965

Sir Edward Victor Appleton was a British 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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