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nz), 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]

(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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Huggins - English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)

Sir William Huggins

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Huggins (redirected from Huggins, Sir William)

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