Sir Edward Victor Appleton FRS GBE
(1892-1965)
Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor, Professor of Physics (1924-1936), Knight of the British Empire (1941-1946), Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire (from 1946), and Nobel Physics Laureate (from 1947)
Commemorated on 2 plaques
Sir Edward Appleton Nobel Laureate 1892-1965 Pioneer of radio and space science discoverer of the ionosphere studied here 1911-1913
the Old Building of the Bradford and Ilkley Community College, Bradford, United Kingdom where they lived
Professor Sir Edward Victor Appleton King's College London Nobel Laureate ionospheric radio 1924
King's College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS, London, United Kingdom where they taught