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Arthur Eddington was a British astrophysicist who lived from 1882 to 1944 and made important contributions to understanding stars and physics. He is historically significant for his work on stellar structure and for helping to verify Einstein's theory of relativity through astronomical observations.
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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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1882 births1944 deaths20th-century British astronomers20th-century British physicistsAlumni of the Victoria University of ManchesterAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeBritish anti–World War I activistsBritish astrophysicistsBritish Christian pacifistsBritish conscientious objectorsBritish cosmologistsBritish fellows of the Royal Society