Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, FRSE (8 January 1868 – 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer and the ninth Astronomer Royal who is remembered today...
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Eddington experiment (redirect from Dyson-Eddington experiment)
test of general relativity, organised by the British astronomers Frank Watson Dyson and Arthur Stanley Eddington in 1919. The observations were of the...
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philanthropist Frank Dyson (1931–1979), British rugby league footballer Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939), English astronomer Freeman Dyson (1923–2020), British-American...
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mentioned in an astronomical publication in 1913. Astronomer Royal Frank Watson Dyson expressed his concern for the need of a name for that unit of distance...
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and Castleford Frank Rushmore Watson (1859–1940), Philadelphia architect Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939), English astronomer Francis Watson (disambiguation)...
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Rebecca Hall as Winnifred Eddington, Arthur's Sister Richard McCabe as Frank Watson Dyson Lucy Briers as The Librarian Paul Brooke as H.H. Turner Oliver Hall...
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admiral buried at sea after being killed in the Battle of Trafalgar. Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939), British Astronomer Royal buried at sea during voyage...
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since 5 February 1924, and were the idea of the Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson, and the head of the BBC, John Reith who commissioned Marconi / Siemens...
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(1865–1941), singer William Binnie (1867–1949), civil engineer Sir Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939), Astronomer Royal Charles Wilson(1869–1959), physicist...
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sphere. The observations were performed in 1919 by Arthur Eddington, Frank Watson Dyson, and their collaborators during the total solar eclipse on May 29...
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eclipse on May 29, 1919, by a team of British scientists led by Sir Frank Watson Dyson was offered as the first proof of Albert Einstein's theory of general...
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Van Biesbroeck (Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin, United States) and Frank Watson Dyson (Greenwich Observatory, England) on March 1. A prediction by Andrew...
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Frank Watson Dyson, Sir James Walker, Arthur Robinson, and James Gordon MacGregor. He...
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2 Charles Piazzi Smyth 1846 1888 3 Ralph Copeland 1889 1905 4 Sir Frank Watson Dyson 1905 1910 5 Ralph Allen Sampson 1910 1937 6 William Michael Herbert...
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Observatory was opened on 8 October 1929 by the Astronomer Royal Frank Watson Dyson. In 2009, student astronomers at the observatory tracked the extrasolar...
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supporter and expositor of relativity in Britain. He and Astronomer Royal Frank Watson Dyson organized two expeditions to observe a solar eclipse in 1919 to make...
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1923 Albert A. Michelson 1924 Arthur Eddington 1925 Frank Watson Dyson 1926 Albert Einstein 1927 Frank Schlesinger 1928 Ralph Allen Sampson 1929 Ejnar Hertzsprung...
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1902, 1914 William Henry Mahoney Christie KCB FRS 1922, 1931 Sir Frank Watson Dyson KBE FRS FRSE 1926, Hugh Rotherham 1932 Sir Francis Newbolt KC FCS...
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Geoffrey Hutchings – Estate manager Sophie Millett – Dyson's secretary Alec McCowen – Sir Frank Watson Dyson Emma Kay - Laura Gurney (Goulds' lodger) Michael...
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Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (b. 1859) 1939 – Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer and academic (b. 1868) 1942 – Emanuel Feuermann...
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Đurković (Serbia, 1908–1981) Frank Watson Dyson (United Kingdom, 1868–1939) Arthur Eddington (United Kingdom, 1882–1944) Frank K. Edmondson (United States...
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(General Secretary, UK), and four vice presidents: William Campbell (US), Frank Dyson (UK), Georges Lecointe (Belgium), and Annibale Riccò (Italy). Thirty-two...
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first-class cricketer with Leicestershire, was born in Measham. Sir Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939), Astronomer Royal noted for work on solar eclipses, was...
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doctor, practised in Blackheath during the 1860s. Astronomer Royal Sir Frank Watson Dyson, lived at 6 Vanbrugh Hill, SE3 between 1894 and 1906 (blue plaque)...
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How We Look at the Universe. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-5417-6225-1. Frank Watson Dyson; Arthur Stanley Eddington; C. Davidson (1920). "A determination of...
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Littlewood, Lee Hsien Loong, Jayant Narlikar, Morris Pell, John Polkinghorne, Frank Ramsey, Lord Rayleigh (John Strutt), Sir George Stokes, Isaac Todhunter...
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Dyson's eternal intelligence (the Dyson Scenario) is a hypothetical concept, proposed by Freeman Dyson in 1979, by which an immortal society of intelligent...
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Johannesburg, South Africa. The asteroid was named after English astronomer Frank Watson Dyson. Dysona is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population...
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25 – Álvaro Casanova Zenteno, Chilean painter (b. 1857) May 25 – Frank Watson Dyson, British astronomer (b. 1868) May 27 Alfred A. Cunningham, American...
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(Louis Boyer) 1239 Queteleta (Adolphe Quetelet) 1241 Dysona (Sir Frank Watson Dyson) 1303 Luthera (Karl Theodor Robert Luther) 1322 Coppernicus (Nicolaus...
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