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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Arthur Stanley Eddington was born on 28 December 1882 in England and trained as both astrophysicist and mathematician. Around 1920, when the source of stellar energy was a complete mystery, he published "The Internal Constitution of the Stars" and correctly speculated that stars fuse hydrogen into helium — foreshadowing the discovery of nuclear fusion by years. After World War I fractured scientific exchange between England and Germany, he wrote articles that introduced Einstein's general relativity to English speakers, then led an expedition to the Island of Príncipe on 29 May 1919 to observe a solar eclipse, producing one of the earliest confirmations of the theory. He became a celebrated populariser of Einstein's work and later a philosopher of science, speculating on quantum mechanics' implications for mind and matter. The Eddington limit — the natural ceiling on stellar luminosity and radiation from accretion — bears his name. He died on 22 November 1944.