We report here on this conference of celebration. This year, the 100 years of this achievement was commemorated with the scientific conference "From Einstein and Eddington to LIGO: 100 years of gravitational light deflection" in Principe to celebrate this landmark event. In the end, Eddington develops a series of tests to either. These are turbulent times as England and Germany are at war and Eddington's own loyalty is called into question when, as a Quaker, he refuses to fight. Science wanted to be above it all showing that people could be united by a common goal. The expectation is that Einstein's theories will be disproven but Eddington admits that his General Theory of Relativity has merit. The first world war had finished a few months before and the deep wounds between nations were yet to heal. With the confirmation of general relativity, a theory of gravitation at a fundamental level, physics became, once and for all, relativist and its future was outlined. Albert Einstein abruptly rose to worldwide fame in November 1919, after Arthur Eddington announced the successful measurement of the gravitational light. At Sobral, Eddington's astronomer colleagues photograph the same eclipse and also conclude that light from distant stars suffers a deflection when passing by the gravitational field of the Sun, in accordance with general relativity. On May 29, 1919, at Ro\ca Sundy, Principe island, Eddington confirms Einstein's general relativity theory for the first time by photographing stars behind the obscured Sun during a total eclipse.
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