"for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer"

Sir Edward V. Appleton

UK
born 1892, died 1965
CA - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
AA - University of London, King's College (King's College London), London, England, UK
WA - University of London, Bournemouth, England UK & Northern Norway, Cambridge University, UK

Additional Information:

• Nobel e-Museum Prize in Physics 1947
• BBC Historic Figures
• Biography by Dr. Peter Excell on PSEWEB
• Ionospheric Layer 
• Appleton Layer 
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory