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==Etymology== Around 1910, [[William Eccles (physicist)|William Eccles]] proposed the name "Heaviside Layer" for the radio-wave reflecting layer in the upper atmosphere,<ref name= Griffiths >Griffiths, Hugh (15 November 2018). "[https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.2017.0459 Oliver Heaviside and the Heaviside layer"], ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences,'' '''376''': No. 2134. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0459. Retrieved 14 June 2019.</ref> and the name has subsequently been widely adopted.<ref name="Marchant1916">Marchant, E. W. (Dec. 1916). "[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1646012 The Heaviside layer"], ''Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 4,'' No. 6, pp. 511–520.</ref> The name Kennelly–Heaviside layer was proposed in 1925 to give credit to the work of Kennelly,<ref name="McAdie1925">McAdie, Alexander (22 May 1925) "[https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.61.1586.540.a The Kennelly-Heaviside Layer"], ''Science,'' '''61''', No 1586, pp. 540 DOI: 10.1126/science.61.1586.540</ref><ref name="Russell_1925">Russell, A. (24 October 1925). "[https://www.nature.com/articles/116609c0#citeas The “Kennelly-Heaviside” Layer"], ''Nature'' '''116''', p. 609. doi:10.1038/116609c0</ref> which predated the proposal by Heaviside by several months.
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