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.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Edward Appleton

Commemorated ati

Edward Appleton

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

Read More

Other Subjects

Lord Kelvin

Lord Kelvin

Mathematical physicist and engineer. Born Belfast. His family moved to Glasgow when he was aged 11. Worked in thermodynamics and on the transatlantic cable. 1st Baron Kelvin. Died Largs Ayrshire.

Person, Science, Ireland, Scotland

5 memorials
Nicholas Culpeper

Nicholas Culpeper

Physician, botanist, herbalist, astrologer and writer. Probably born at Ockley, Surrey. In about 1635 left Cambridge and came to London. This was prompted by the death of his intended. On her way t...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Science

1 memorial
Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin

Crystallographer. Born Chepstow Villas. Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studies at King's College London with Gosling, Stokes, Wilkins and Wilson. She was responsible for the photograph taken in Ma...

Person, Science

4 memorials
William Gilbert

William Gilbert

Physician, physicist and natural philosopher.   Born Colchester.  Regarded by some as the father of electrical engineering or electricity and magnetism.  Died in London, probably of the bubonic pla...

Person, Science

1 memorial
Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon

Philosopher and Franciscan friar.  Born Somerset.  An early proponent of the modern scientific method.  He studied at Oxford where there is a statue.

Person, Religion, Science

1 memorial

Previously viewed

R. Connon Robertson, LMSSA, LSA

R. Connon Robertson, LMSSA, LSA

District Surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1920-1931. Officer in the Order of St John.

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Tower of London execution site

Tower of London execution site

EC3, Tower Green, Tower of London

Catling wrote the poem as well as creating the sculpture. Doesn't that cushion look lovely and comfy - just the place to lay a weary head...

10 subjects commemorated, 1 creator