Sir Arthur Eddington

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:mathematician
gptkb:person
gptkb:physicist
astronomer
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Bruce_Medal
gptkb:Gold_Medal_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society
gptkb:Henry_Draper_Medal
gptkb:Knight_Bachelor
gptkb:Royal_Medal
gptkb:order_of_merit
gptkbp:birthDate 1882-12-28
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Kendal,_Westmorland,_England
gptkbp:contributedTo gptkb:cosmology
theory of stellar structure
experimental confirmation of general relativity
theory of radiation pressure
gptkbp:deathDate 1944-11-22
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Cambridge,_England
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Arthur_Schuster
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar
gptkb:Edmund_Whittaker
gptkbp:education gptkb:Owens_College,_Manchester
gptkb:Trinity_College,_Cambridge
gptkbp:field gptkb:mathematics
astrophysics
physics
gptkbp:gender male
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sir Arthur Eddington
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar
gptkb:Edmund_Whittaker
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Albert_Einstein
gptkb:James_Clerk_Maxwell
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Eddington's_experiment_(1919_solar_eclipse)
gptkb:Eddington–Dirac_number
gptkb:Eddington–Finkelstein_coordinates
gptkb:Eddington–Lemaître_model
gptkb:Eddington_Medal
gptkb:Eddington_approximation
gptkb:Eddington_limit
gptkb:Eddington_luminosity
gptkb:Eddington_number
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Royal_Astronomical_Society
gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkb:order_of_merit
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Fundamental_Theory
gptkb:Space,_Time_and_Gravitation
gptkb:The_Internal_Constitution_of_the_Stars
gptkb:The_Nature_of_the_Physical_World
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:professor
director of the Cambridge Observatory
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Quaker
gptkbp:signature Arthur_Stanley_Eddington_signature.svg
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Alumni_of_Pembroke_College,_Cambridge
gptkb:President_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society
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