significance of the theory of relativity and his works expounded various aspects of it and included valuable contributions to its development. On the occasion of his being admitted as a freeman of K'endal, Sir Oliver Lodge wrote that Sir. Arthur's successes "are only samples of the results of a large numbe. of elaborate calculations in which it is difficult to see whether he was assisted more by the sharpness and keenness of his mathematical weapons than by the intuition of genius," and that he had corrected and extended the teachings of previous workers "to an extent which has practically revolutionised physics." Sir J. J. Thomson described him as "one of those rare cases r/here great literary ability is combined with great scientific ability."
Professor Eddington was a Quaker, and was unmarried. He was knighted in 1930.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1944, Page 6
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