阿普尔顿

ā pǔ ěr dùn

Appleton (name)

Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere

阿

ā

abbr. for country names that begin with 阿[a1]: Algeria 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4], Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4] etc

普

pǔ

general

尔

ěr

thus

顿

dùn

to stop