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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Sir Edward Appleton

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Edward Appleton

Professor Sir Edward Victor Appleton King's College London Nobel Laureate I...

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Television

See Londonist's excellent post How Television Was Invented In London. We love it when our friends do the work for us!

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Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson

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Reginald Ruggles Gates

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Alan Turing

Alan Turing

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Person, Science, Seriously Famous

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Dr John Venn

Dr John Venn

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Person, History, Science

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