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Edward Victor Appleton blue plaque

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This blue commemorative plaque records: Sir Edward Appleton Nobel Laureate 1892-1965 Pioneer of radio and space science discoverer of the ionosphere studied here 1911-1913 Recorded plaque organisation: Institute of Physics.

From the Open Plaques record 1686

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