# #Mon Aug 09 11:50:52 CEST 2010 Text__lq7KIKObEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=The Best Thing That Could Have Happened Text__lq7KIKObEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=

The final results of the British eclipse expedition are announced at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society on 6 November 1919. After their plan to meet each other in Leiden falls through, Eddington informs Einstein by letter about the enthusiastic response in England. He writes\: It is the best possible thing that could have happened for scientific relations between England and Germany.