Sir Edward Victor Appleton was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer". He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911.
Appleton in 1947
The grave of Sir Edward Victor Appleton, Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh
Bradford College is a further and higher education college in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, with approximately 25,000 students. The college offers a range of full and part-time courses from introductory level through to postgraduate level and caters for a variety of students, including school leavers, adults wanting to return to education, degree-level students and those seeking professional qualifications.
David Hockney Building, main campus
The Westbrook Building at Bradford College in November 2007. This entrance was demolished in 2012.
The Old Building at Bradford College
Bradford College in June 2006