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2012
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947

Edward V. Appleton

Sir Edward Victor Appleton

Sir Edward Victor Appleton

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947 was awarded to Edward V. Appleton "for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer".

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