Astronomer Royal AppointmentSeptember 1910
Becomes Astronomer Royal and director at Greenwich.
Historical person
Frank Watson Dyson Biography
Historical biography and chronological timeline for Frank Watson Dyson, based on 4 World History Database records associated with Great Britain.
4 records1910–19194 events2 places
Chronological biography
1910
Greenwich Observatory LeadershipSeptember 1910
Takes national leadership of British positional astronomy.
1919
Relativity, Theory of1919
Arthur Eddington and Astronomer Royal Frank Watson Dyson organized two expeditions to observe a solar eclipse in 1919 to make the first empirical test of Einsteins theory: the measurement of the deflection of light by the suns gravitational field
Light Deflection29 May 1919
Dyson organises eclipse expeditions that test general relativity by measuring stellar positions near the Sun
Titles and roles
Astronomer · Astronomer Royal
Record provenance
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