Eddington

Eddington or Edington may refer to:

Places

Australia

Eddington, Victoria

United Kingdom

Eddington, Berkshire
Eddington, Kent
Edington, Somerset
Edington, Wiltshire

United States of America

Eddington, Maine
Eddington, Pennsylvania
Eddington (SEPTA station)

People

Surname

Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), English astrophysicist
Patrick G. Eddington, a former CIA imagery analyst
Paul Eddington (1927–1995), English actor
Rod Eddington (born 1950), Australian businessman
Jonathon Edington (born 1977), American patent lawyer.
Sophie Edington (born 1984), Australian swimmer.
Stump Edington (1891–1969), American baseball player.
William Edington (died 1366), English bishop and administrator

Given name

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, a proposed ESA mission to search for extrasolar planets
Eddington-Dirac number, alternative name for the Dirac large numbers hypothesis

Fiction

Michael Eddington, a fictional character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Translation

The word "Eddington" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, Portuguese.

Translation in Dutch: Edington.