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What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.

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Arthur Eddington
Age: 61 †
Born: 1882
Born: December 28
Died: 1944
Died: November 22
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Philosopher
Physicist
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Arthur Eddington
Cavendish
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Events do not happen they are just there, and we come across them.
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