| Born |
Arthur Stanley Eddington
28 December 1882 Kendal, Westmorland, England
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| Died |
22 November 1944 (aged 61) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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| Alma mater | 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 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Academic advisors | |
| Doctoral students | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Leslie Comrie Hermann Bondi |
| Other notable students | Georges Lemaître |
| Influences | Horace Lamb Arthur Schuster John William Graham |
Stellar Movements and the Structure of the UniverseReport on the relativity theory of gravitationSpace, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity TheoryThe Mathematical Theory of RelativityStars and AtomsThe Internal Constitution of StarsThe Nature of the Physical WorldScience and the Unseen WorldThe Expanding Universe: Astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’New Pathways in ScienceRelativity Theory of Protons and ElectronsThe Philosophy of Physical Science by Arthur EddingtonFundamental Theory