The existence and location of an ionized reflecting layer in the Earth's atmosphere was identified by Edward Appleton, whose research responded to the first long distance radio messages transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean. After Guglielmo Marconi...

The British scientist Sir Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965) was a pioneer in radio physics who gained fame through his study of the ionosphere--the upper reaches of the atmosphere. Edward Victor Appleton was born on September 6, 1892, in Bradford,...

When Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) made his remarkable transatlantic Morse code transmission on December 11, 1901, the world was stunned. Several experts had said such a thing was impossible. Radio waves, like light waves, are a part of the...

1892-1965 English physicist who was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physics for investigations of the ionosphere. His experiments on radio waves confirmed the existence of the Heaviside-Kennelly or E-layer originally proposed to explain...

Sir Edward Victor Appleton, GBE (September 6, 1892 – April 21, 1965) was an English physicist. Appleton was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire and educated at Hanson Grammar School. At the age of 18 he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge....

At some moments, with their palettes of muted grays and greens and their flat, stiffly rendered forms, Robert Appleton's marinescapes seem to be following a stripped-down, no-frills esthetic. The presence of water and sky is established by roughly drawn horizon lines, and the...

Appleton West, Butch score big Senior breaks tourney record with 45 points By BOBBI ROQUEMORE broquemore@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Friday, March 21, 2003 Madison -- The Milwaukee Custer boys basketball team found itself on the wrong end of Brian Butch's big...