Internet consulté le 12-02-2005, http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/29_12.html
Information trouvée : Appleton, Sir Edward Victor (b. Sept. 6, 1892, Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng.--d. April
21, 1965, Edinburgh, Scot.), British winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1947
for his discovery of the so-called Appleton layer of the ionosphere, which is a dependable
reflector of radio waves and as such is useful in communication. Other ionospheric
layers reflect radio waves sporadically, depending upon temperature and time of day.