Person Eddington; Sir; Arthur Stanley (1882 - 1944); astrophysicist and theoretical physicist Eddington Arthur Stanley Sir astrophysicist and theoretical physicist 1882 - 1944 British Male Kendal, Westmorland, England 28 December 1882 Cambridge 22/11/1944 19441122 Burial: St Giles' cemetery, now Ascension Cemetery, Cambridge

Astrophysicist Astronomy Relativity Education: Owens College Manchester 1898-1902 B.Sc. Class I (Physics) MA (Cambridge); MSc (Manchester) Career: Chief Assistant to Astronomer Royal at Greenwich Observatory 1906 Plumian Professor of Astronomy in Cambridge 1913-1944 President of the Royal Astronomical Society 1921-1923; President Physical Society 1939-1932; President International Astronomical Union 1938-1944. Honours: Kt 1930; OM 1938 Member of the Society of Friends Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1928 Lectures: Bakerian 1926 Fellow 07/05/1914 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1945-1948 vol 5 pp 113-125, plate, by H C Plummer References: S Chandrasekhar, 'Verifying the Theory of Relativity' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 249-260 W H McCrea, 'The Royal Observatory and the Study of Gravitation' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 133-140, plate Sir Harrie Massey, 'Nuclear Physics Today and in Rutherford's Day' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 25-44 R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64 I T Durham, 'Rethinking the history of solar wind studies: Eddington's analysis of Comet Morehouse' in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 261-270 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 'Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe' (1914); 'Report on the Relativity Theory of Gravitation' (1915); 'Space, Time and Gravitation' (1920); 'The Mathematical Theory of Relativity' (1923); 'The Internal Constitution of the Stars' (1926); 'Fundamental Theory' (1946); The Combination of Relativity Theory and Quantum Theory (1946) 28 Dec 1882 - 22 Nov 1944 NA8211 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 05/06/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/24675918 d5cf3466-dc8f-47ee-bc1d-f1ed034b83c6