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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William Huggins, Du Quoin, was charged with delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine.
Two years later, William Huggins, a little-known amateur astronomer from London, attended a lecture about spectroscopy by his neighbor, Dr.
He was born Peter Jeremy William Huggins in Berkswell in the Midlands and famously played lovesick beau Freddie in the 1964 musical My Fair Lady before making the role of Holmes his own.
* Jeremy Brett was born Peter Jeremy William Huggins at Berkswell Grange in 1933.
Long ago, Sir William Huggins and his wife, Margaret Lindsay Huggins [19], demonstrated that planetary nebula can manifest extremely sharp lines in spite of their great spatial extent [20, p.
He was born Peter Jeremy William Huggins but his father, a First World War Hero, reportedly banned him from using the family name as he regarded acting as a "dubious" profession.
The true nature of what we now call planetary nebulae remained a mystery until William Huggins turned his spectroscope on NGC 6543 in 1864 and realised it was a gaseous object.
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.
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