Appleton

Ap·ple·ton  (pl-tn)

A city of eastern Wisconsin on the Fox River southwest of Green Bay. The first hydroelectric plant in the United States was built here in 1882. Population: 70,200.

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Appleton, Sir Edward Victor 1892-1965.

British physicist. He won a 1947 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the F layer of the ionosphere.

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Appleton [ˈæp^əltən]

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(Biographies / Appleton, Sir Edward (Victor) (1892-1965) M, English, SCIENCE: physicist) Sir Edward (Victor). 1892-1965, English physicist, noted particularly for his research on the ionosphere: Nobel prize for physics 1947

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Noun	1.	Appleton - English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966) Edward Appleton, Sir Edward Victor Appleton
	2.	Appleton - a town in eastern Wisconsin Badger State, WI, Wisconsin - a midwestern state in north central United States