Arthur Eddington Biography - English Astronomer, Physicist, and Mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington OM (Kendal, Westmorland - now Cumbria - England, December 28, 1882 - Cambridge, November 22, 1944) was a well-known British astrophysicist in the first half of the 20th century. Eddington's limit, the natural limit of the luminosity that can be radiated by accretion to a compact object, took its name from him.
He is famous for his work related to the theory of relativity. In 1919 he wrote an article entitled Report on the relativity theory of gravitation, which transmitted Albert Einstein's theory of relativity to the Anglo-Saxon world. Due to the First World War, German scientific advances were not well known in Britain.
He showed that the energy inside the stars was transported by radiation and convection. These works were reflected in the book The Internal Constitution of the Stars (1926).
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