biography
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Dyson, Sir Frank (Watson)
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| lived:
| (1868–1939)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Measham, Leicestershire, C England, UK. Astronomer-royal for Scotland (1905–10) and England (1910–33), he is known for his observations in 1919 which supported Einstein's hypothesis that light could be deflected by a gravitational field, and for his work on the distribution of stars and on solar eclipses. He was knighted in 1915. |
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