== Biography ==Walter Houser Brattain was born on 10 February 1902 in Xiamen, China, to American parents Ross R. Brattain and Ottilie Houser Brattain.
Appleton je leta 1947 prejel Nobelovo nagrado za fiziko »za raziskave fizike zgornjih plasti ozračja in še posebej za odkritje Appletonove plasti.«