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Arthur Eddington

British astrophysicist

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1882–1944

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About Arthur Eddington

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington was an English astrophysicist and mathematician. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.

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