Arthur Eddington

Also known as Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Sir Arthur Eddington

British astrophysicist (1882-1944)

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Arthur Stanley Eddington was a male person from the United Kingdom. He was born on December 28, 1882, and died on November 22, 1944. His works include The Nature Of The Physical World, New Pathway In Science, Space Time and Gravitation, and Theory of Relativity and Its Influence on Scientific Thought.

Eddington is recognized in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He is referenced by 518 other encyclopedia articles. Regarding his writing, he stated that physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature.

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The Nature Of The Physical World
New Pathway In Science
New Pathways in Science
Space Time and Gravitation
Theory of Relativity and Its Influence on Scientific Thought

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1882-12-28
Active to: 1944-11-22

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· 1968 · cited 13,430x
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Quotes

“Physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature.”
“At terrestrial temperatures matter has complex properties which are likely to prove most difficult to unravel; but it is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.”
“We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.”
“A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the sub-atomic energy which, it is known, exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn to release it and use it for his service. The store is well-nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped.”
“I think that science would never have achieved much progress if it had always imagined unknown obstacles hidden round every corner. At least we may peer gingerly round the corner, and perhaps we shall find there is nothing very formidable after all.”
“To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic — like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.”

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Instance of: human
Given name: Arthur
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Kendal
Place of death: Cambridge
Occupation: mathematician
Position held: professor
Educated at: University of Cambridge
Employer: Royal Observatory
Languages spoken: English language
Notable work: radiative transfer
Noble title: Knight Bachelor
Doctoral advisor: Ernest Barnes
Field of work: astrophysics
Image: Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg

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member of: Academy of Sciences of Turin
Commons category: Arthur Stanley Eddington
date of birth: 1882-12-28
date of death: 1944-11-22
Commons Creator page: Arthur Stanley Eddington
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language: sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
writing language: English language
influenced by: Horace Lamb
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was an English astrophysicist and mathematician. 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". 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.

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