ABSTRACT
White-gowned students in the gallery sing in chorus. Trumpeters blow a fanfare for each laureate as his turn comes at last to step down to the King. Since the awards are announced in alphabetical order, Appleton was first to receive the medal, the diploma, and the envelope officially telling him that he could collect the prize money of about 10000 from the Nobel Foundation. As the announcement was made, with its description of the vertical probing of the ionosphere, his daughter was heard to comment: 'There must be something in Daddy after all.
