Edward Victor Appleton
Sir Edward Victor Appleton (born September 6, 1892 in Bradford , † April 21, 1965 in Edinburgh ) was an English physicist .
Life
Appleton was born in Bradford , West Yorkshire . He attended the Hanson Grammar School. At the age of 18 he won a scholarship to St John's College of Cambridge University . He graduated with first class grades in the fields of science.
During the First World War he joined the Duke of Wellington's Regiment , later he was transferred to the Royal Engineers . After Appleton returned from active service from the war, he became an experimental physics assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1920 . Between 1924 and 1936 he was Professor of Physics at the University of London and then until 1939 Professor of Natural Philosophy ( natural sciences ) at Cambridge University.
In 1924, Appleton discovered the radio wave-reflecting layer of the ionosphere (E-layer, Kennelly-Heaviside layer ) predicted in 1902 by Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside . Between 1939 and 1949, Edward Appleton was a secretary in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. In 1941 he was ennobled.
Appleton received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for important contributions to the understanding of the ionosphere . The technology used for this led, among other things, to the development of radar .
Honors and memberships
From 1949 until his death in 1965 he was Dean and Vice Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh .
Edward Victor Appleton had been a member of the Freemasons Association since 1922 . His lodge ( Isaac Newton Lodge No.859 ) is based in Cambridge .
Appleton was from 1927 a member of the Royal Society and from 1936 an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1934 he became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and, after the Second World War, of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In 1947 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
In 1974 the Radio Research Station was renamed the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in honor of Appleton and Ernest Rutherford . A lunar crater and the Appleton layer are named after him.
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the award ceremony in 1947 to Edward Victor Appleton
- BBC: Historic Figures: Sir Edward Appleton. Retrieved February 16, 2011 .
- Newspaper article about Edward Victor Appleton in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Derek AJ Lister: Bradford's Own . Sutton, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3826-9 .
- ^ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder : Internationales Freemaurerlexikon , revised and expanded new edition of the edition from 1932, Munich 2003, 951 pages, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3 .
- ↑ Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A (PDF; 536 kB) American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 19, 2011.
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Sir Edward Victor Appleton. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 16, 2015 .
- ↑ shaper RSE Fellows 1783-2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 6, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Appleton, Edward Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Appleton, Sir Edward Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bradford |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1965 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh |