Word: appletons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nobel Prize Winner Sir Edward Appleton's probings in the upper atmosphere before World War II led in time's nick to Britain's secret weapon...
...conformance with the wishes of his widow, the memorial service for Alfred North Whitehead hold at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon dispensed with all eulogy. A throng of over 300 friends and admirers led by President Conant attended the service...
This was Britain's year for Nobel Prizes in science. Last week the committee of eminent Swedes, which passes out the $40,588 awards, gave the 1947 physics and chemistry prizes to Sir Edward Victor Appleton and Sir Robert Robinson-both big names in science but little known to the U.S. man in the street...
...Secretary of Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, is an outstanding authority on radio waves. He is the father of two daughters (Rosalind, 20, dances in the Anglo-Polish Ballet), a detective-story fan, likes golf, his garden and piano, and is a fairly regular churchgoer. Appleton's probings in the upper atmosphere, where he located two layers of ionized gases, resulted in the first use of reflected radio waves to measure the distance of an unseen object. Just in time for World War II, the technique developed into Britain's secret weapon: radar...
...Reverend Sidney Lovett, chaplain of Yale University, will give an address on "Unity and Diversity in Religious Experience" tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Memorial Church before the members of the newly-organized Appleton Club...