Robert d'Escourt Atkinson

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Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (April 11, 1898 – October 28, 1982) was an astronomer, physicist and inventor.

In the 1930s he was one of the pioneers of the idea that abundances of chemical elements in the universe were due to processes in the interior of stars. For this, he won the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1960.

In 1937 he became Chief Assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

The asteroid 1827 Atkinson is named after him.

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• QJRAS 25 (1984) 100–104
• JBAA 93 (1983) 172–173