1965

Sir Edward Appleton

Categories: Science

Image source: www.wdc.rl.ac.uk

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...

See other memorials in this area

Other Subjects

Chaim Weizmann

Scientist and statesman. Born Chaim Azriel Weizmann, at Motol, near Pinsk, Belorussia. (Modern day Belarus). He studied in Germany and Switzerland producing a number of patents on dyestuffs. In 19...

Person, Politics & Administration, Science, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Switzerland

1 memorial

Venn diagram

Invented by Dr John Venn. We think the attached picture does an excellent job of both illustrating all you need to know about how Venn diagrams work and also of succinctly answering that knotty qu...

Concept, Science

1 memorial

Oliver Heaviside

Born in Camden Town. Aged 12 the family could no longer afford to send him to school so he continued studying on his own. Thus he was largely self-taught, no secondary education or university. In ...

Person, Science, Denmark

1 memorial

Galileo Galilei

Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Born Pisa, Italy. His improvements to the telescope enabled him to make new important astronomical observations which supported Copernicus’s...

Person, Science, Seriously Famous, Italy

2 memorials

Sir Isaac Newton

Born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, on Christmas day, according to the calendar in use at the time. Died in Kensington (where he had gone in search of country air). The exact dates of birth and dea...

Person, Science, Seriously Famous

11 memorials

Previously viewed

Brewer and member of parliament. Born at Cardington, near Bedford. He set up a small brewery in London in 1742. He amassed a large fortune and invested heavily in property. M.P.for Bedford in 1768....

Person, Commerce, Food & Drink, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

Joiners' and Ceilers' Hall

First recorded in 1375 as the Guild of St. James, Garlickhythe, the Worshipful Company of Joiners and Ceilers was granted a charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1571. 'Ceilers' work in wood so this is ...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial