University of Manchester Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for
Arrow of time Eddington approximation Eddington experiment Eddington's affine geometry Eddington limit Eddington number Eddington valve Eddington–Dirac number Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates Eddington stellar model Eddington–Sweet circulation
Awards
Royal Society Royal Medal (1928) Smith's Prize (1907) RAS Gold Medal (1924) Henry Draper Medal (1924) Bruce Medal (1924) Knight Bachelor (1930) Order of Merit (1938)
Scientific career
Fields
Astrophysics
Institutions
Trinity College, Cambridge
Academic advisors
E. T. Whittaker
Alfred North Whitehead
Ernest William Barnes
Robert Alfred Herman
Doctoral students
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar[1] Leslie Comrie Hermann Bondi
Other notable students
Georges Lemaître Vibert Douglas George C. McVittie
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonOM FRS[2] (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. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.
Around 1920, he foreshadowed the discovery and mechanism of nuclear fusion processes in stars, in his paper "The Internal Constitution of the Stars".[3][4] At that time, the source of stellar energy was a complete mystery; Eddington was the first to correctly speculate that the source was fusion of hydrogen into helium.
Eddington wrote a number of articles that announced and explained Einstein's theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world. World War I had severed many lines of scientific communication, and new developments in German science were not well known in England. He also conducted an expedition to observe the solar eclipse of 29 May 1919 on the Island of Príncipe that provided one of the earliest confirmations of general relativity, and he became known for his popular expositions and interpretations of the theory.
^Arthur Eddington at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^Plummer, H. C. (1945). "Arthur Stanley Eddington. 1882–1944". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5 (14): 113–126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1945.0007. S2CID 121473352.
^The Internal Constitution of the Stars A. S. Eddington The Scientific Monthly Vol. 11, No. 4 (Oct., 1920), pp. 297–303 JSTOR 6491
^Eddington, A. S. (1916). "On the radiative equilibrium of the stars". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 77: 16–35. Bibcode:1916MNRAS..77...16E. doi:10.1093/mnras/77.1.16.
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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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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disproving the then-popular plum pudding model of the atom. Eddington experiment (1919): ArthurEddington leads an expedition to the island of Principe to observe...
originally developed in a joint effort between ArthurEddington, Ralph Fowler and Arthur Milne. Eddington had suggested that the atoms in Sirius B were...
iconic simians and typewriters. In the early 20th century, Borel and ArthurEddington used the theorem to illustrate the timescales implicit in the foundations...
Chandrasekhar became acquainted with British physicist Sir ArthurEddington. 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 ArthurEddington, and Murray Gell-Mann. Indeterminism has been promoted by the French...
its electrostatic radius. The coincidence was further developed by ArthurEddington (1931) who related the above ratios to N, the estimated number of charged...
for the longevity of the Sun as a source of heat and light. In 1920, ArthurEddington, on the basis of the precise measurements of atomic masses by F.W....
first to propose the concept of nuclear fusion in 1915. Then in 1921, ArthurEddington suggested hydrogen–helium fusion could be the primary source of stellar...
scientists, especially Ernest Rutherford, Charles Galton Darwin and ArthurEddington, and he ultimately named his second son after J. J. Thomson. From 1926...
nature of this surface was not quite understood at the time. In 1924, ArthurEddington showed that the singularity disappeared after a change of coordinates...
prompted cosmogonists such as Willem de Sitter, Karl Schwarzschild, and ArthurEddington to explore its astronomical ramifications, which enhanced the ability...
Jacob Bronowski, Christopher Budd, Kevin Buzzard, Arthur Cayley, Donald Coxeter, ArthurEddington, Ben Green, John Herschel, James Inman, J. E. Littlewood...
output with his mass–energy equivalence relation E = mc2. In 1920, Sir ArthurEddington proposed that the pressures and temperatures at the core of the Sun...
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