Eddington
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Eddington or Edington may refer to:
  • Eddington (horse)
    Eddington (horse)
    Eddington is a millionaire American Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire. Bred in Kentucky by Carl Rosen and Associates and raced under the Willmott Stables banner . He finished racing with a record of 6-3-6 in 17 starts with career earnings of $1,216,760...

    , an American Thoroughbred racehorse


United Kingdom

  • Eddington, Berkshire
    Eddington, Berkshire
    Eddington is a village in the civil parish of Hungerford in the West Berkshire district of Berkshire, England. It lies approximately north-east from Hungerford, its nearest town....

  • Eddington, Kent
    Eddington, Kent
    Eddington, Kent, was a village in South East England to the south-east of Herne Bay, Kent, to the east of Beltinge and to the north of Herne. It is now a suburb of Herne Bay, in Greenhill and Eddington Ward, one of the five wards of Herne Bay...

  • Edington, Somerset
    Edington, Somerset
    Edington is a rural village, situated on the north side of the Polden Hills in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England.Either side of it lie the villages of Chilton Polden and Catcott, and north of it is the small village of Burtle...

  • Edington, Wiltshire
    Edington, Wiltshire
    Edington is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about five miles east of Westbury.The parish includes two principal settlements, Edington village and Tinhead, which lies between the main village and Coulston and contains the parish's only surviving public house, The Paulet Arms...


United States of America

  • Eddington, Maine
    Eddington, Maine
    Eddington is a town located on the eastern side of the Penobscot River in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,052.- History :...

  • Eddington, Pennsylvania
    • Eddington (SEPTA station)
      Eddington (SEPTA station)
      Eddington Station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station on Street and Dunks Ferry Roads, Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, 18.2 miles from upper level 30th St Station. Its name derives from the surrounding CDP of Eddington....


Surname

  • Arthur Stanley Eddington
    Arthur Stanley Eddington
    Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM, FRS was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. He was also a philosopher of science and a popularizer of science...

     (1882–1944), English astrophysicist
  • Patrick G. Eddington
    Patrick G. Eddington
    Patrick Eddington is a former CIA imagery analyst, a former lobbyist, private researcher, author, and Congressional staffer. Eddington resigned in 1996 after working on a book that exposed the gulf war syndrome....

    , a former CIA imagery analyst
  • Paul Eddington
    Paul Eddington
    Paul Eddington CBE was an English actor best known for his appearances in popular television sitcoms of the 1970s and 80s: The Good Life, Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.-Early life:...

     (1927–1995), English actor
  • Rod Eddington
    Rod Eddington
    Sir Roderick Ian Eddington is an Australian businessman. He is currently chair of the government body Infrastructure Australia, a director of News Corporation, continuing his long association with that company, and has served in other senior positions including as former CEO of British...

     (born 1950), Australian businessman
  • Jonathon Edington
    Jonathon Edington
    Jonathon Edington is a Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, patent lawyer who achieved national notoriety when, on August 28, 2006, he murdered his neighbor, Barry James, after being told that James had molested Edington's two-year-old daughter. There has been no evidence found that Barry James...

     (born 1977), American patent lawyer.
  • Sophie Edington
    Sophie Edington
    Sophia Jane Edington is an Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer.She trained at the Kingscliff ASC club under Greg Salter. After Greg took up an overseas coaching role Sophie moved to Queensland to train under the QAS program from the end of 2008...

     (born 1984), Australian swimmer.
  • Stump Edington
    Stump Edington
    Jacob Franklin "Stump" Edington was a Major League Baseball right fielder who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates for about a month in 1912 . The 20-year-old rookie, who stood 5'8" and weighed 170 lbs., was a native of Koleen, Indiana.Edington played very well during his time with the Pirates...

     (1891–1969), American baseball player.
  • William Edington (died 1366), English bishop and administrator

Things named after Arthur Stanley Eddington

  • Eddington (crater)
    Eddington (crater)
    Eddington is the lava-flooded remnant of a lunar impact crater, located on the western part of Oceanus Procellarum. The western rim is attached to the wall of the walled plain Struve. To the east-southeast is the smaller but prominent crater Seleucus...

    , on the Moon
  • Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates
    Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates
    In general relativity Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates, named for Arthur Stanley Eddington and David Finkelstein, are a pair of coordinate systems for a Schwarzschild geometry which are adapted to radial null geodesics...

    , used in the theory of general relativity
  • Eddington luminosity
    Eddington luminosity
    The Eddington luminosity in a star is defined as the point where the gravitational force inwards equals the continuum radiation force outwards, assuming hydrostatic equilibrium and spherical symmetry. When exceeding the Eddington luminosity, a star would initiate a very intense continuum-driven...

    , or Eddington limit, relating to the maximum mass of a star
  • Eddington Medal
    Eddington Medal
    The Eddington Medal, named after Sir Arthur Eddington, is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society nominally once every two years for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics.- Recipients :* 1953 Georges Lemaître...

    , awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Eddington mission
    Eddington mission
    The Eddington mission was a European Space Agency project that planned to search for Earth-like planets. It was named for Arthur Eddington, a noted physicist who translated Einstein's work. It was originally planned for operation in 2008, but was delayed...

    , a proposed ESA mission to search for extrasolar planets
  • Eddington-Dirac number, alternative name for the Dirac large numbers hypothesis
    Dirac large numbers hypothesis
    The Dirac large numbers hypothesis is an observation made by Paul Dirac in 1937 relating ratios of size scales in the Universe to that of force scales. The ratios constitute very large, dimensionless numbers: some 40 orders of magnitude in the present cosmological epoch...


Fiction

  • Michael Eddington, a fictional character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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