Arthur Eddington was innocent! The trend for debunking science's simple narratives can be overdone, says Philip Ball. Philip Ball There was once a time when the history of science was ...

Sir Arthur Eddington is a renowned physicist at Cambridge University and an expert in the measurement of the physical world. He along with all of his colleagues are also avowed Newtonians.

Arthur Eddington, director of the Cambridge Observatory in the U.K., waited for the Sun to emerge. The remains of a morning thunderstorm could ruin everything.

When astrophysicist Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) was told that some people believed that only three scientists understood Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, he quietly said: “I ...

One hundred years ago, the English mathematician, astronomer and physicist Arthur Eddington led an expedition to the west coast of Africa, to best view the major solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 ...

Arthur Eddington (left) and Frank Dyson (right). Public Domain. In 2017, Toby Dittrich, a physics professor at Portland Community College, coordinated a dozen observing groups including Berry ...

Ultraluminous X-ray sources are objects that shine 10 million times as bright as the sun. Scientists have said they are too bright to exist, as they break the Eddington limit.

Sir Arthur and Sir James are, at first glance, as like as two peas. They are both practicing astronomers of great renown. Astronomers value the Eddington work on the internal constitution of the ...

It's called the Eddington limit, after the British astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington, and describes a balance between the rate of infalling matter onto a black hole and the amount of radiation ...