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Arthur Stanley Eddington

Author of The Nature of the Physical World

Includes the names: A. Eddington, A. S. Eddington, Arthur Eddington, Arthur S. Eddington, Arthur S. Eddington, Sir A. S. Eddington, EDDINGTON SIR ARTHUR, Sir Arthur Eddington, Sir Arthur Eddington, Sir Arthur S. Eddington ... (see complete list), Arthur Stanley Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Arthur Stanley Eddington F.R.S

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Eddington, Arthur Stanley
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Date of birth
1882-12-28
Date of death
1944-11-22
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Gender
male
Nationality
UK
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Kendal, Cumbria, England, UK (birth)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK (death)
Education
Owens College, Manchester (B.Sc. ∙ physics ∙ 1902)
University of Cambridge (Trinity College ∙ BA ∙ 1905)
Occupations
researcher (Cavendish Laboratory)
astronomer (Assistant to Astronomer Royal ∙ Greenwich Observatory)
professor ( [1913])
director (Cambridge Observatory)
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Royal Society (Fellow)
Awards and honors
Smith's Prize (1907)
Bruce Medal (1924)
Henry Draper Medal (1924)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1924)
Royal Medal of the Royal Society ( 1928)
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Eddington was a Quaker and, therefore, a conscientious objector to military service in WWI. In 1919 he was part of the expedition which obsevered the solar eclipse from the island of Principe, near Africa. His observations of the bending of light was the observational 'proof' of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Several of Eddington's works were meant to explain science to the layman.
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