Arthur Eddington

the smartest person to ever live besides Kanye West

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Based on my performance at Owens College, I was awarded a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1902.

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I was educated at home before spending three years at a preparatory school before going to college.

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After my fathers death my family moved to Weston-super-Mare

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My father taught at a Quaker training college when I was young

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I was the first person to investigate the motion, internal structure and evolution of stars.

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My father died in 1884 in England

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So you are welcome for Changing the world, now you can fill your balloons with helium and watch then fly

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I died of cancer :(

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@E_MargaretBurb No way

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@E_MargaretBurb What?!?

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@E_MargaretBurb Insane

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“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.” - Me

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@E_MargaretBurb Lit

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@E_MargaretBurb Dope

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I anticipated the discovery and mechanism of nuclear fusion processes in stars, in my paper The Internal Constitution of the Stars.

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I also conducted an expedition to observe the Solar eclipse of 29 May 1919.

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I was the first to correctly speculate that the source was fusion of hydrogen into helium.

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I was inspired by Horace Lamb

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I also studied at Trinity College in Cambridge

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I attended the University of Manchester