SIR – I feel I must object to the way you repeatedly fail to include Sir Edward Appleton as one of the recipients of the Freedom of the City of Bradford.
I beg to point out that Sir Edward, who was born in Bradford in 1892, attended Hanson Grammar School, won a scholarship to Cambridge and served in the Royal Engineers in the First World War.
In 1924 he discovered a layer in the ionosphere which was officially named The Appleton Layer. He was knighted in 1946, in 1947 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics and in the same year he received The Freedom of the City of Bradford.
During the Second World War he was the head of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. In 1949 he took up the post of Principal of the University of Edinburgh which he held until his sudden death in 1965.
How could such a brilliant Bradfordian be overlooked?
Betty Collins, Bolton Drive, Bradford
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