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Sir William Huggins
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Noun1.Sir William Huggins - English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
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Aficionados have ranged from the early English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, whose 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' of 1391 was written for a 10-year old boy, through the nineteenth-century pioneer of spectroscopic astronomy, William Huggins, to George Ellery Hale, the erstwhile promoter of giant telescopes.
The Astrolabe by Glass, Ian / Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
William Huggins (1820-1884) CAPTION(S): Who was the archenemy of Dan Dare, pilot of the future?
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Martin's own father died when he was eight, but Jeremy, who was born Peter Jeremy William Huggins in Balsall Common, always encouraged his young cousin and came to see him perform on stage.
Martin embraces role of family man; WEEKEND: TV by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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