sir arthur stanley eddington

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Definition of sir arthur stanley eddington in English English dictionary

born Dec. 28, 1882, Kendal, Westmorland, Eng. died Nov. 22, 1944, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire British astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. At the University of Cambridge he won every mathematical honour. He was chief assistant at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (1906-13); in 1914 he became director of the Cambridge observatory. Religious and pacifistic, he declared that the world's meaning could not be discovered by science. His greatest contributions were in astrophysics, where his studies included stellar structure, subatomic sources of stellar energy, white dwarf stars, and diffuse matter in interstellar space. His philosophical ideas led him to believe that unifying quantum theory and general relativity would permit the calculation of certain universal constants

Hyphenation

sir Ar·thur Stan·ley Ed·ding·ton

Turkish pronunciation

sır ärthır stänli edîngtın

Pronunciation

/ˈsər ˈärᴛʜər ˈstanlē ˈedəɴɢtən/ /ˈsɜr ˈɑːrθɜr ˈstænliː ˈɛdɪŋtən/