Sir Edward Victor Appleton was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his contributions to the knowledge of the ionosphere, which led to the development of radar and shortwave radio. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947, announced November 13, 1947. Edward V. Appleton, “for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer”. Edward V. Appleton: born 1892, Bradford, United Kingdom. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).