Editing Arthur Eddington (section)

==Death==
Eddington died of cancer in the [[Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital|Evelyn Nursing Home]], Cambridge, on 22 November 1944.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okRzDwAAQBAJ&q=Eddington+Evelyn+Nursing+Home%2C+Cambridge%2C+on+22+November+1944.&pg=PT320 |title=Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe|first1= S. James|last1= Gates |first2=Cathie |last2=Pelletier|publisher=Public Affairs|isbn=978-1541762251|year=2019}}</ref> He was unmarried. His body was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium (Cambridgeshire) on 27 November 1944; the cremated remains were buried in the grave of his mother in the [[Ascension Parish Burial Ground]] in Cambridge.

Cambridge University's [[North West Cambridge development]] has been named Eddington in his honour.

Eddington was played by [[David Tennant]] in the television film ''[[Einstein and Eddington]]'', with Einstein played by [[Andy Serkis]]. The film was notable for its groundbreaking portrayal of Eddington as a somewhat repressed gay man. It was first broadcast in 2008.

The actor [[Paul Eddington]] was a relative, mentioning in his autobiography (in light of his own weakness in mathematics) "what I then felt to be the misfortune" of being related to "one of the foremost physicists in the world".<ref>Quakers and the Arts: "Plain and Fancy"- An Anglo-American Perspective, David Sox, Sessions Book Trust, 2000, p. 65</ref> Paul's father Albert and Sir Arthur were second cousins, both great-grandsons of William Eddington (1755–1806).