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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...
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    The Eddington experiment was an observational test of general relativity, organised by the British astronomers Frank Watson Dyson and Arthur Stanley Eddington...
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  • association with HBO. It featured David Tennant as British scientist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, and Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein. This is the story of Einstein's...
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  • directly towards or away from the central mass. They are named for Arthur Stanley Eddington and David Finkelstein. Although they appear to have inspired the...
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    it approximately 1080. The term is named for British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington, who in 1940 was the first to propose a value of NEdd and to explain...
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  • Eddington or Edington is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), English astrophysicist E. Keith Eddington...
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    physicist Paul Dirac, mathematician Hermann Weyl and astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington. These numerical coincidences refer to such quantities as the ratio...
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  • gravitational-wave detectors and observation) Arthur Stanley Eddington (early treatises, relativistic stars, Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates, role of curvature...
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    In the Chandrasekhar–Eddington dispute of the early 20th century, English astronomer Arthur Eddington and the Indian astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar...
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    British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington, and is an unsolved general physics question. This direction, according to Eddington, could be determined by...
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  • published. However, in May 1919, a team led by the British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington claimed to have confirmed Einstein's prediction of gravitational...
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    Jacob Bronowski, Christopher Budd, Kevin Buzzard, Arthur Cayley, Donald Coxeter, Arthur Eddington, Ben Green, John Herschel, James Inman, J. E. Littlewood...
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  • pressure, but this result was challenged by the more prestigious Arthur Stanley Eddington, and was not fully accepted for several decades. When the reality...
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    this class of stars in 1922; the term was later popularized by Arthur Stanley Eddington. Despite these suspicions, the first non-classical white dwarf...
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    of stellar pulsation as a heat-engine was proposed in 1917 by Arthur Stanley Eddington (who wrote at length on the dynamics of Cepheids), but it was not...
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    is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. — Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1927) In the mid-19th-century...
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  • electrostatic constant, ke ) – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Eddington number – Arthur Stanley Eddington Dunbar's number – Robin Dunbar Embree–Trefethen constant...
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    is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. — Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1927) There have been nearly...
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    Awards and achievements Preceded by Arthur Stanley Eddington and Robert Broom Royal Medal (with Robert Muir) 1929 Succeeded by John Edward Marr and Owen...
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  • English composer, later a Quaker preacher Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), UK astrophysicist Paul Eddington (1927–1995), English actor George Edmondson...
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  • stellar nucleosynthesis in stars, a theory first suggested by Arthur Stanley Eddington, given credence by Hans Bethe, and quantitatively developed by...
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  • membership required.) Spencer Jones, H.; Whittaker, E. T. (1945). "Arthur Stanley Eddington". Obituary notice. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
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  • quantum theory, in what is now known as Kaluza–Klein theory. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington was a noted astronomer who became an enthusiastic and influential...
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    William Lassell and around Mars in 1877 by Asaph Hall. In 1919 Arthur Stanley Eddington uses a solar eclipse to successfully test Albert Einstein's General...
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  • seems to be one of the main obstacles for quantizing gravity. Arthur Stanley Eddington suggested already in 1924 in his book The Mathematical Theory of...
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  • Meister Eckhart (1260–1327/8)[1][2][4][5] Umberto Eco (1932–2016)[1] Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944)[2] Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)[1][2][3][4][5] Paul...
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    The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object – Arthur Stanley Eddington...
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  • mechanism by which stars could produce energy. Throughout the 1920s, Arthur Stanley Eddington became a major proponent of the proton–proton chain reaction (PP...
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  • Eccles – U.K. (1875–1966) Carl Eckart – United States (1902–1973) Arthur Stanley Eddington – U.K. (1882–1944) Thomas Edison – U.S. Invented the lightbulb...
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  • via TheFreeLibrary.com "Astrophysics and Mysticism: the life of Arthur Stanley Eddington\protect\footnote{Originally presented as talk at the Faith of Great...
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