Arthur Stanley Eddington

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astronomer astrophysicist human mathematician physicist science writer

Arthur Stanley Eddington was a pioneering 20th-century British astrophysicist and mathematician known for his work on general relativity, stellar structure, and the 1919 eclipse expedition that confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravity.

Aliases (2)

Arthur Eddington ×3
Sir Arthur Eddington ×2

Statements (71)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	astronomer → astrophysicist → human → mathematician → physicist → science writer →
awardReceived	Bruce Medal → Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society → Henry Draper Medal → Prix Jules Janssen → Royal Medal →
causeOfDeath	cancer →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland →
dateOfBirth	1882-12-28 →
dateOfDeath	1944-11-22 →
educatedAt	Owens College → Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED → University of Manchester →
ethnicGroup	English →
familyName	Eddington →
fieldOfWork	astrophysics → cosmology → general relativity → mathematical physics → stellar structure → theoretical physics →
fullName	Arthur Stanley Eddington →
givenName	Arthur →
hasAcademicAdvisor	Arthur Schuster →
hasHonorificSuffix	FRS → OM →
hasOccupation	researcher → university teacher →
influenced	Fred Hoyle → Hermann Bondi → Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar →
influencedBy	Albert Einstein →
knownFor	1919 solar eclipse expedition → Eddington approximation → Eddington limit → Eddington luminosity → Eddington mass-luminosity relation → Eddington number → Eddington standard model of stars → Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates → experimental confirmation of general relativity → popularizing Einstein’s theory of relativity in the English-speaking world →
languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned	English →
memberOf	Quakers → Royal Astronomical Society → Royal Society →
namedAfter	Eddington (lunar crater) → Eddington crater →
notableIdea	philosophical idealism in physics → relation between microphysics and macrophysics →
notableWork	Space, Time and Gravitation → The Internal Constitution of the Stars → The Mathematical Theory of Relativity → The Nature of the Physical World →
placeOfBirth	England → Kendal → Westmorland →
placeOfDeath	Cambridge → Cambridgeshire NERFINISHED → England →
positionHeld	Director of the Cambridge Observatory → Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge →
religion	Quakerism →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Cambridge →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Eddington Medal → Eddington limit → Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates →	namedAfter
Arthur Stanley Eddington →	fullName
Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge ("Sir Arthur Eddington") →	hasGraveOf
Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge ("Arthur Eddington") →	hasNotableHolder
Eddington Medal ("Sir Arthur Eddington") →	isNamedAfter
Gifford Lectures ("Arthur Eddington") →	notableLecturer
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society ("Arthur Eddington") →	notableRecipient