Arthur Stanley Eddington1924
The larger a star the more luminous, mass can be found if luminosity is known. Discovers the mass-luminosity relation for stars
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The larger a star the more luminous, mass can be found if luminosity is known. Discovers the mass-luminosity relation for stars
Eddingtons theory appeared in mature form in 1926 as The Internal Constitution of the Stars, which became an important text for training an entire generation of astrophysicists
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