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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
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.
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.
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18 de mai. de 2018 · Dyson, Frank Watson. ( b. Measham, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, 8 January 1868; d. on board ship near Cape Town, South Africa, 25 May 1939) astronomy. On graduating in the mathematical tripos at Cambridge, England, as second wrangler in 1889, Dyson began research on gravitational problems. He was appointed chief ...
24 de mai. de 2019 · Em 1917, os astrônomos ingleses Frank Watson Dyson, diretor do Observatório Real de Greenwich, o mais importante do Reino Unido, e Arthur Stanley Eddington, um conhecido astrofísico, queriam ...
Frank Watson Dyson. 8 January 1868 - 25 May 1939. 1922 Bruce Medalist. hope was to discover that he was the long-lost heir to a rich nobleman. This picture is false; there were many roads to success for poor boys in Victorian England, and early evidence of mathematical ability was one.
