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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.
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.
- 25 May 1939 (aged 71), At sea
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Astronomer Royal
- 8 January 1868, Measham, Leicestershire, England
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.
Bruce Medalists ›. Frank Watson Dyson. 1922. Date of Birth. : January 8, 1868. Date of Death. : 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.
18 de mai. de 2018 · Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Dyson, Frank Watson (b. Measham, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, 8 January 1868; d.
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 st...
SIR FRANK DYSON, Astronomer Royal, will terminate his official connexion with the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, on February 28. He went to Greenwich in 1894, when he was appointed a chief...
