In 1952, at age 72, he traveled to Khartoum in Sudan and set up a 20' telescope to confirm Einstein's Theory of Relativity by noting the change in positions of the stars around the Sun during a total eclipse that year.
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In 1904 he left civil engineering behind and joined the staff at the Royal Observatory of Belgium at Uccle.
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