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Also Known As Heaviside layer • Kennelly–Heaviside layer

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Illustration of Earth's atmosphere showing the ionosphere's D, E, and F regions as colored layers above the planet, with a scale in kilometers and the sun shining at the edge.
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Oliver Heaviside
British physicist
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Arthur Edwin Kennelly
American electrical engineer