Appleton

[ ap-uh l-tuh n ]
/ ˈæp əl tən /

noun

Sir Edward Victor,1892–1965, British physicist: Nobel Prize 1947.
a city in E Wisconsin.

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Appleton
/ (ˈæpəltən) /

noun

Sir Edward (Victor). 1892–1965, English physicist, noted particularly for his research on the ionosphere: Nobel prize for physics 1947
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