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A Short Biography of Sir Arthur Eddington

Author Name:

Sir Arthur Eddington

Born As:

Arthur Eddington

Other Names:

Born:

1882

Died:

1944




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Astrophysicist                          
Selected Works:

Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe - 1914
Report on the relativity theory of gravitation - 1918
Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory  - 1920
The Mathematical Theory of Relativity  - 1923, 1953
Stars and Atoms - 1926
The Internal Constitution of Stars - 1926
The Nature of the Physical World - 1928, 1935 replica edition: 1926–27 Gifford lectures
Science and the Unseen World - 1929. 1980 Reprint Arden Library, 2000 reprint - Whitefish, Montana : Kessinger Publications, 2007 UK reprint London, Allen & Unwin - Swarthmore Lecture, with a new foreword by George Ellis
The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate' - 19nn, 1900-1931
Why I Believe in God: Science and Religion, as a Scientist Sees It - 1930
New Pathways in Science - 1935, Cambridge University Press 
Relativity Theory of Protons and Electrons - 1936, Cambridge University Press
Philosophy of Physical Science - 1939, Cambridge University Press .1938, Tarner lectures at Cambridge
The Domain of Physical Science - 1925, 2005 reprint
Fundamental Theory - 1948, Cambridge University Press                          
Mother Sarah Ann Stout
Father Arthur Henry Eddington - both Quakers.                          
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.