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Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, FRSE (8 January 1868 – 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer and the ninth Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Frank Watson Dyson (Measham, 8 de janeiro de 1868 — mar de Cidade do Cabo,25 de maio de 1939) foi um astrônomo inglês. Dyson viveu de 1894 a 1906 em Blackheath, Londres. De 1905 a 1910 foi Astronomer Royal for Scotland, e de 1910 a 1933 Astrônomo Real Britânico e ao mesmo tempo diretor do Observatório de Greenwich.
21 de mai. de 2024 · Sir Frank Dyson was a British astronomer who in 1919 organized observations of stars seen near the Sun during a solar eclipse, which provided evidence supporting Einstein’s prediction in the theory of general relativity of the bending of light in a gravitational field. In 1894 Dyson became chief.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 25, 1939. Frank W. Dyson, the son of a minister, won scholarships to secondary school and Cambridge University, where he studied mathematics and astronomy. Dyson spent his entire career, except for five years in Edinburgh, at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, where he was Director and Astronomer Royal from 1910 to 1933.
13 de mar. de 2010 · I review the development of gravitational lensing as a powerful tool of the observational cosmologist. After the historic eclipse expedition organized by Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson, the subject lay observationally dormant for 60 years.
- Richard S. Ellis
- 2010
Distinciones. Comendador de la Orden del Imperio británico. Miembro de la Royal Society. Medalla Real (1921) Medalla Bruce (1922) Medalla de oro de la Real Sociedad Astronómica (1925) Firma. [ editar datos en Wikidata] Frank Watson Dyson (8 de enero de 1868 – 25 de mayo de 1939) fue un astrónomo británico.
Frank Dyson, a highly successful director of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, contributed significantly to the study of proper motions of stars, and inaugurated the transmission of time via radio, but he is best known for helping to organize the 1919 solar eclipse expedition which provided the first detection of gravitational deflection of ...
