1882 - 1944
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. He was also a philosopher of science and a populariser of science. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Eddington has received more than 1,042,563 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Arthur Eddington is the 43rd most popular astronomer (down from 26th in 2019), the 486th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 342nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Astronomer.
Arthur Eddington is most famous for his work on the theory of relativity and the bending of light.
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Among astronomers, Arthur Eddington ranks 43 out of 531. Before him are Adolphe Quetelet, Jan Oort, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Charles Greeley Abbot, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Simon Marius. After him are Henrietta Swan Leavitt, James Bradley, Asaph Hall, Fritz Zwicky, Clyde Tombaugh, and Ferdinand Verbiest.
1796 - 1874
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 37
1900 - 1992
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 38
1397 - 1482
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 39
1872 - 1973
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 40
1835 - 1910
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 41
1573 - 1625
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 42
1882 - 1944
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 43
1868 - 1921
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 44
1693 - 1762
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 45
1829 - 1907
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 46
1898 - 1974
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 47
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 48
1623 - 1688
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 49
Among people born in 1882, Arthur Eddington ranks 37. Before him are Jacques Maritain, A. A. Milne, Princess Margaret of Connaught, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, Princess Marie Bonaparte, and Hans Geiger. After him are Bela Lugosi, Nicolai Hartmann, Robert H. Goddard, Boris Shaposhnikov, René Coty, and Moritz Schlick. Among people deceased in 1944, Arthur Eddington ranks 36. Before him are Glenn Miller, Louis Renault, Erich Hoepner, Kasturba Gandhi, Aristide Maillol, and Wang Jingwei. After him are Antanas Smetona, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Werner von Haeften, Gustav Bauer, Hilma af Klint, and Giovanni Gentile.
1882 - 1973
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 31
1882 - 1956
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 32
1882 - 1920
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 33
1882 - 1960
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 34
1882 - 1962
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 35
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 36
1882 - 1944
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 37
1882 - 1956
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 38
1882 - 1950
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 39
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 40
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 41
1882 - 1962
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 42
1882 - 1936
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 43
1904 - 1944
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 30
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 31
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 32
1869 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 33
1861 - 1944
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 34
1883 - 1944
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 35
1882 - 1944
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 36
1874 - 1944
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 37
1863 - 1944
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 38
1908 - 1944
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 39
1870 - 1944
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 40
1862 - 1944
HPI: 63.93
Rank: 41
1875 - 1944
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 42
Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Eddington ranks 486 out of 7,765. Before him are Arthur Balfour (1848), Thomas Wolsey (1473), Eadwig (940), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), and G. E. Moore (1873). After him are Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), Olivia Newton-John (1948), John Everett Millais (1829), John Bunyan (1628), Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660), and Daphne du Maurier (1907).
1848 - 1930
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 480
1473 - 1530
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 481
940 - 959
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 482
1550 - 1604
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 483
1772 - 1834
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 484
1873 - 1958
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 485
1882 - 1944
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 486
1855 - 1927
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 487
1948 - 2022
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 488
1829 - 1896
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 489
1628 - 1688
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 490
1660 - 1744
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 491
1907 - 1989
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 492
Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Arthur Eddington ranks 4. Before him are Edmond Halley (1656), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), and Fred Hoyle (1915). After him are James Bradley (1693), John Flamsteed (1646), Martin Ryle (1918), George Darwin (1845), William Lassell (1799), Stephen Gray (1666), Antony Hewish (1924), and William Huggins (1824).
1656 - 1742
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 1
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 2
1915 - 2001
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 3
1882 - 1944
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 4
1693 - 1762
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 5
1646 - 1719
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 6
1918 - 1984
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 7
1845 - 1912
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 8
1799 - 1880
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 9
1666 - 1736
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 10
1924 - 2021
HPI: 60.00
Rank: 11
1824 - 1910
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 12