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Huggins

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Hug·gins  (hgnz), Charles Brenton 1901-1997.
Canadian-born American surgeon. He shared a 1966 Nobel Prize for research in hormone treatment for cancer of the prostate.
Huggins [ˈhʌgɪnz]
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(Biographies / Huggins, Sir William (1824-1910) M, British, SCIENCE: astronomer) Sir William. 1824-1910, British astronomer. He pioneered the use of spectroscopy in astronomy and discovered the red shift in the lines of a stellar spectrum
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Noun1.Huggins - English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
Sir William Huggins
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