Eddington

Eddington is the name of several places:

• In the United States of America:
  • Eddington, Maine
  • Eddington, Pennsylvania

• In the United Kingdom:
  • Eddington, Berkshire
  • Eddington, Kent

• In Australia:
  • Eddington, Victoria

• Eddington is also a surname and may refer to any of the following:
  • Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944), English astrophysicist
  • Michael Eddington, a fictional character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • Patrick G. Eddington, a former CIA imagery analyst
  • Paul Eddington (1927-19995), English actor
  • Rod Eddington (1950-), Australian businessman

• People with the first name Eddington:
  • Eddington Varmah, Liberian politician

• Things named after Arthur Stanley Eddington:
  • Eddington (crater) on the Moon
  • Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates used in the theory of general relativity
  • Eddington luminosity, or Eddington limit, relating to the maximum mass of a star
  • Eddington Medal, awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Eddington mission, an ESA mission to search extrasolar planets (cancelled)
  • The Eddington-Dirac number can refer to the Dirac large numbers hypothesis

See also

• Edington