Editing Edward Appleton (section)

{{Short description|English physicist (1892–1965)}}
{{About|the British physicist|the American baseball player|Ed Appleton}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix  = [[Sir]]
| name              = Edward Appleton
| honorific_suffix  = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|GBE|KCB|FRS|size=100%}}
| image             = Appleton.jpg
| caption           = Appleton in 1947
| title             = [[List of principals of the University of Edinburgh|Principal of the University of Edinburgh]]
| term_start        = 1948
| term_end          = 1965
| chancellor        = {{Plain list|
* [[Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow]] 
* [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]]
}}
| predecessor       = [[John Fraser (surgeon)|John Fraser]] 
| successor         = [[Michael Swann]]
| birth_name        = Edward Victor Appleton
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1892|09|06|df=yes}}
| birth_place       = [[Bradford]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1965|04|21|1892|09|06|df=yes}}
| death_place       = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland
| resting_place     = [[Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh|Morningside Cemetery]], Edinburgh
{{Infobox scientist
| embed             = yes
| alma_mater        = [[St John's College, Cambridge]]
| known_for         = Proving the existence of the [[Kennelly–Heaviside layer]] (1924)
| spouses           = {{Plain list|
* {{Marriage|Jessoe Longson|1915|1962|end=d}}
* {{Marriage|Helen Lennie|1965}}
}}
| children          = 2 
| awards            = {{Plain list|
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (1927)<ref name="frs">{{cite journal|last=Ratcliffe|first=J. A.|year=1966|title=Edward Victor Appleton 1892–1965|journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]]|volume=12|pages=1–19|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1966.0001|s2cid=73060633}}</ref>
* [[Hughes Medal]] (1933)
* [[Faraday Medal]] (1946)
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1947)
* [[Chree Medal and Prize]] (1947)
* [[Royal Medal]] (1950)
* [[Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts)|Albert Medal]] (1950)
* [[IRE Medal of Honor]] (1962)
}} 
| honours           = [[File:Order of the Bath UK ribbon.svg|25px]] [[Order of the Bath]] (Knight Commander, 1941)
| fields            = [[Physics]]
| work_institutions = {{Plain list|
* [[Cavendish Laboratory]] (1920–1924)
* [[King's College London]] (1924–1936)
* [[University of Cambridge]] (1936–1939)
* [[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (United Kingdom)|Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]] (secretary, 1939–1949)
}}
| academic_advisors = {{Plain list|
* [[Ernest Rutherford]]
* [[J. J. Thomson]]
}}
| notable_students  = {{Plain list|
* [[Karl George Emeléus]]
* [[Charles Oatley]]
* [[J. A. Ratcliffe]]
}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| embed             = yes
| order2            = 7th
| office2           = Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy
| term_start2       = 1936
| term_end2         = 1939
| predecessor2      = [[C. T. R. Wilson]]
| successor2        = [[John Cockcroft]]
}}
}}
}}

'''Sir Edward Victor Appleton''' (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English [[physicist]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/appleton_edward.shtml|title=BBC – History – Sir Edward Appleton|publisher=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1063/1.3047706 | title = Sir Edward Appleton | journal = Physics Today | volume = 18 | issue = 9 | pages = 113 | year = 1965 }}</ref> 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]]".<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1947/summary/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}</ref>