William Hartston tells the story of the row that exploded on a cold January day in 1935 between Eddington and Chandrasekhar. It was over the death of stars. Show more Sir Arthur Eddington was the ...

The brilliant, whimsical popularizing of Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington has made ''the expanding Universe'' almost a household word. But the telescopic observations of a universe which ...

As given by Britain's brilliant, opinionated Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, the seven fundamental constants of Nature are: e, the charge of an electron; m, the mass of an electron (at rest); M, ...

Enter Sir Arthur Eddington, who supported Einstein based on his own experiment of starlight deflection during a solar eclipse, earning him worldwide recognition.

Ever since relativity's first confirmation in 1919, when Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington observed that the light from distant stars was shifted by the mass of the sun, direct tests have been confined ...

Named after the British astronomer, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, who laid the foundations for our understanding of how stars work, the Eddington Mission aims to answer the question Eddington ...

Few books about events a century ago carry as relevant a message for today’s world of resurgent nationalism as does Matthew Stanley’s “Einstein’s War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the ...

Sir Arthur Eddington, who died at the end of 1944, was one of the few recent scientific thinkers of the first rank who have attempted to think out a view of the world which would do justice to all ...