Sir John Eliot was born on 25 May 1839. He served as the second meteorological reporter to the Indian government and also as the director-general of Indian observatories from 1899 to 1903.
Arthur Stanley Eddington (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was a British astronomer, physicist, and mathematician, best known for his work on the theory of relativity and stellar structure. He provided one of the first experimental confirmations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity during the 1919 solar eclipse expedition, where he observed the bending of starlight by the Sun’s gravity. Eddington also developed the Eddington limit, defining the balance between radiation pressure and gravitational pull in stars, and authored influential works such as The Internal Constitution of the Stars. A Quaker by faith, he was an advocate of international scientific cooperation, even during wartime, and played a major role in popularizing complex scientific concepts for the public.
Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, FRSE (8 January 1868 – 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer and the ninth Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity
Dopita studied physics at Wadham College, Oxford. He worked at the Australian National University from 1975. He served as Treasurer of the Australian Academy of Science from 2008 and was a member of its Council from 2004 to 2008. He was president, Division VI, International Astronomical Union, from 1994 to 1997 and was a council member of the Astronomical Society of Australia between 1993 and 1996. He was an Inaugural Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council, 2001. Until 2015 he was editor in chief of the scientific journal Astrophysics and Space Science and author with Dr Ralph Sutherland of Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe. Dopita published over 650 research papers in refereed scientific journals.