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Sir Edward Victor Appleton

(1892-1965), Physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Sitter in 10 portraits

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Sir Edward Victor Appleton, by Walter Stoneman - NPG x163642

Sir Edward Victor Appleton

by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1930
NPG x163642

Sir Edward Victor Appleton, by Howard Coster - NPG x2459

Sir Edward Victor Appleton

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1940s
NPG x2459

Sir Edward Victor Appleton, by Howard Coster - NPG x2572

Sir Edward Victor Appleton

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1940s
NPG x2572

Sir Edward Victor Appleton, by Unknown photographer - NPG x134174

Sir Edward Victor Appleton

by Unknown photographer
bromide postcard print
NPG x134174

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Sir Edward Victor Appleton

by Lafayette
half-plate nitrate negative, 30 April 1929
NPG x47684

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Sir Edward Victor Appleton

by Lafayette
half-plate nitrate negative, 30 April 1929
NPG x47685

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Sir Edward Victor Appleton

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1940s
NPG x2458

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Sir Edward Victor Appleton

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1940s
NPG x2460

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Sir Edward Victor Appleton

by Walter Stoneman
copy negative, copied June 1942
NPG x164192

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Sir Edward Victor Appleton

by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate negative, 1953
NPG x82321

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