December 28, 1882 Birth of Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astro - TopicsExpress



          

December 28, 1882 Birth of Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astro physician in Kendal Cumbria. In 1912 he was leading an expedition to a solar eclipse in Brazil. Eddington confirmed his observations (that light bends when it passes a heavy mass) at the solar eclipse of 1919, together with Sir Frank Dyson. He had organized for this, special an expedition to the island Principe. He died in 1944 on 22 November in Cambridge.
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