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    Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. He was also a philosopher of...
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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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    In the Chandrasekhar–Eddington dispute of the early 20th century, English astronomer Arthur Eddington and Indian astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar...
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  • Eddington or Edington may refer to: Eddington Varmah, Liberian politician Eddington (surname), people with the surname Eddington, Victoria Eddington, Berkshire...
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  • Sir Arthur Eddington took only the electron scattering into account when calculating this limit, something that now is called the classical Eddington limit...
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    crater was named after the British astronomer and mathematician Sir Arthur Eddington. By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing...
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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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  • Quakers – Albert Eddington being related to the Somerset shoemaking Clark family and the scientist Sir Arthur Eddington. (Albert and Sir Arthur were second...
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  • outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics. It is named after Sir Arthur Eddington. First awarded in 1953, the frequency of the prize has varied over...
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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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    Lemaître to travel to England, where he worked with the astrophysicist Arthur Eddington at the University of Cambridge in 1923–1924, and to the United States...
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  • controversy, owing to the opposition of the British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington. Eddington was aware that the existence of black holes was theoretically...
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    Sinhala surgeon Arthur Delaporte (born 1991), French politician Sir Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), British astrophysicist Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941)...
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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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  • originally developed in a joint effort between Arthur Eddington, Ralph Fowler and Arthur Milne. Eddington had suggested that the atoms in Sirius B were...
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  • disproving the then-popular plum pudding model of the atom. Eddington experiment (1919): Arthur Eddington leads an expedition to the island of Principe to observe...
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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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    iconic simians and typewriters. In the early 20th century, Borel and Arthur Eddington used the theorem to illustrate the timescales implicit in the foundations...
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    Chandrasekhar became acquainted with British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington. Eddington took an interest in his work, but in January, 1935, gave a talk...
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  • indeterministic nature of the universe. Indeterminism is also asserted by Sir Arthur Eddington, and Murray Gell-Mann. Indeterminism has been promoted by the French...
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    its electrostatic radius. The coincidence was further developed by Arthur Eddington (1931) who related the above ratios to N, the estimated number of charged...
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    first to propose the concept of nuclear fusion in 1915. Then in 1921, Arthur Eddington suggested hydrogen–helium fusion could be the primary source of stellar...
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    nature of this surface was not quite understood at the time. In 1924, Arthur Eddington showed that the singularity disappeared after a change of coordinates...
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  • (d. 1925) 1870 – Charles Bennett, English runner (d. 1949) 1882 – Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d. 1944) 1882 –...
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    for the longevity of the Sun as a source of heat and light. In 1920, Arthur Eddington, on the basis of the precise measurements of atomic masses by F.W....
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  • Procyon by suggesting that these stars have dark companions 1906 — Arthur Eddington begins his statistical study of stellar motions 1908 — Henrietta Leavitt...
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    scientists, especially Ernest Rutherford, Charles Galton Darwin and Arthur Eddington, and he ultimately named his second son after J. J. Thomson. From 1926...
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  • frontispiece of every issue contains an extended quotation from Sir Arthur Eddington equating Icarus' adventurousness with the scientific investigator who...
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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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    Eddington is the name given by developers to a local centre in the North West Cambridge Development, after Cambridge astrophysicist Arthur Eddington,...
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