Person    | Male  Born 6/9/1892  Died 21/4/1965

Sir Edward Appleton

Categories: Science

Born Bradford. Physicist. Professor at King's College London. Nobel Laureate Ionospheric radio, 1924.
Died Edinburgh.

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