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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington OM FRS (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. He was also a philosopher of science and a populariser of science.
May 29, 2019 · The British astronomer Arthur Eddington corroborated Einstein's theory of relativity using an eclipse and what turned him into a scientific superstar
Arthur Eddington was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who did his greatest work in astrophysics, investigating the motion, internal structure, and evolution of stars. He also was the first expositor of the theory of relativity in the English language.
Sir Arthur Eddington was an eminent English astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He is known for his groundbreaking research in astrophysics. He was the first person to investigate the motion, internal structure and evolution of stars and is widely considered to be one of the greatest astronomers of all time.
Dec 28, 2014 · In addition to his work in relativity theory Eddington also did important work on the internal structure of stars. He discovered the mass-luminosity relationship for stars, he calculated the abundance of hydrogen, and he produced a theory to explain the pulsation of Cepheid variable stars.
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, (born Dec. 28, 1882, Kendal, Westmorland, Eng.—died Nov. 22, 1944, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), British astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. At the University of Cambridge he won every mathematical honour.
Apr 1, 2007 · Enter Sir Arthur Eddington. When I began studying physics in the late 1940s, Eddington was a hero of mine but for the wrong reasons. I knew nothing about his great work in astronomy.
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was a Cambridge cosmologist who played a key role in establishing Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity (GTR).
Sir Arthur Eddington was one of the most prominent and important astrophysicists of his time. He was one of the first physicists to understand the early ideas of relativity along with Albert Einstein. ESA's planet-finding mission Eddington is named after him.
Discover how Arthur Eddington, a British astronomer, helped to prove Einstein's theory of relativity and changed our understanding of the universe.
