Honours
Awards
- Smith's Prize (1907)
- Bruce Medal of Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1924)
- Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1924)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1924)
- Prix Jules Janssen of the French Astronomical Society (1928)
- Royal Medal of the Royal Society (1928)
- Knighthood (1930)
- Order of Merit (1938)
- Hon. Freeman of Kendal, 1930
Named after him
- Lunar crater Eddington
- asteroid 2761 Eddington
- Royal Astronomical Society's Eddington Medal
- Eddington mission, now cancelled
- Eddington Tower, halls of residence at the University of Essex
- Eddington Astronomical Society, an amateur society based in his hometown of Kendal
- Eddington, a house (group of students, used for in-school sports matches) of Kirkbie Kendal School.
Service
- Gave the Swarthmore Lecture in 1929.
- Chairman of the National Peace Council 1941–1943.
- President of the International Astronomical Union; of the Physical Society, 1930–32; of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1921–23
- Romanes Lecturer, 1922
- Gifford Lecturer, 1927
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