| 64th | Top people with craters of the Moon named after them |
| Question 1: Knighted in 1941, he received the 1947 ________ for his contributions to the knowledge of the ionosphere, which led to the development of radar. | |||
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| Question 2: The crater Appleton on the ________ is named in his honour. | |||
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| Question 3: ________ had been able to make his historic transatlantic transmissions; to achieve this, refraction of the signals was necessary to reach its destination. | |||
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| Question 4: To prove his theory, in 1924 Appleton used the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio broadcast transmitter at ________, England. | |||
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| Question 5: From 1949 until his death in 1965, he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the ________. | |||
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| Question 6: Likely inspiration for the pseudonym Victor Appleton – the fictitious author of the ________ series of novels | |||
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| Question 7: In 1902 ________ and Arthur Edwin Kennelly independently proposed the idea of there being a conducting layer that reflected radio signals. | |||
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| Question 8: He received the radio signals near ________, proving they were being reflected. | |||
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| Question 9: Appleton was born in ________, West Yorkshire and educated at Hanson Grammar School. | |||
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| Question 10: After returning from active service in ________, Appleton became assistant demonstrator in experimental physics at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1920. | |||
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