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
Arthur Stanley Eddington
Plaque at 42 Walliscote Road, Weston-super-Mare
Eddington, right, on a toy donkey; possibly during the Fifth Conference of the International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, held in Bonn, Germany, 1913
One of Eddington's photographs of the total solar eclipse of 29 May 1919, presented in his 1920 paper announcing its success, confirming Einstein's theory that light "bends"
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure
Arthur Eddington
…Trinity College, Cambridge Academic advisors E. T. Whittaker Alfred North Whitehead Ernest William Barnes Robert Alfred Herman Doctoral students Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Leslie Comrie Hermann Bondi Other notable students Georges Lemaître Vibert Douglas George C. McVittie Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (28 December 1882…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
S. Chandrasekhar with his brothers and sisters in Madras [Chennai], India. From left to right seated are: Bala, Savitri, Chandra, Sarada, Rajam; standing: Vidya, Balakrishnan, Vishwam, Ramanathan, Sundari.