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    Sir William Huggins (7 February 1824 – 12 May 1910) was a British astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together...
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  • Peter Jeremy William Huggins (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995), known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor. He is best known for his...
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  • Huggins may refer to: Albert Huggins (born 1997), American football player Bob Huggins (born 1953), American college basketball coach Charles Brenton Huggins...
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  • William Huggins was an English astronomer. William Huggins may also refer to: William Huggins (translator) (1696–1761), English translator William Huggins...
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    astronomer Sir William Huggins in 1935. This crater lies across the eastern rim of the larger crater Orontius. The eastern rim of Huggins is laid across...
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    recent work done by William Huggins on the spectroscope and constructed a spectroscope after finding inspiration in that article. Huggins' interest and abilities...
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    William Huggins (1696 – 2 July 1761) was an English translator of Ariosto. Huggins was the son of John Huggins, warden of the Fleet prison. He was born...
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    Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1867 jointly with William Huggins, for their spectroscopic study of the composition of stars. In 1845...
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    proposed element found in astronomical observation of a nebula by William Huggins in 1864. The strong green emission lines of the Cat's Eye Nebula, discovered...
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  • William John Huggins (1781 – 19 May 1845) was a British marine painter who won royal patronage for his work. Little is known of Huggins' early life. He...
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  • of this period and it also reveals the spiral nature of M51. 1864 — William Huggins studies the spectrum of the Orion Nebula and shows that it is a cloud...
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    have previously recognized it as a planetary nebula; for example, William Huggins found its spectrum indicated it was a nebula (instead of a galaxy or...
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    John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, (/ˈreɪli/; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist and mathematician. He spent all of his academic...
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    three emitting lines which would four years later be identified by William Huggins to be carbon. He discovered that the spectrum changed when a comet...
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    Hartmut; Kronberg, Christine. "William Huggins (February 7, 1824 – May 12, 1910)". SEDS. Retrieved 2008-04-11. Huggins, W.; Miller, W. A. (1863–1864)...
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    nebulosity rather than a more distant cluster. Beginning in 1864, William Huggins examined the spectra of about 70 nebulae. He found that roughly a third...
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    Cat's Eye Nebula (category Discoveries by William Herschel)
    planetary nebula to be observed with a spectroscope by William Huggins on August 29, 1864. Huggins' observations revealed that the nebula's spectrum was...
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    William Huggins and his wife Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, had a home and observatory known as Huggins' Observatory from about 1850 until 1915 at 90 Upper...
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    William Huggins (May 1820 – 25 February 1884) was an English artist, from Liverpool, who specialised in drawing animals. Huggins was a member of the Liverpool...
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  • Norman Lockyer, Carl David Tolmé Runge, Friedrich Paschen Aurorium 1874 William Huggins Ausenium Ao 93 Neptunium 1934 Enrico Fermi Austrium 31 Gallium 1886...
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    atom (n = 2). Two of Balmer's colleagues, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel and William Huggins, were able to confirm the existence of other lines of the Balmer series...
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    a number of cases of dogs, like that of English astrophysicist Sir William Huggins, who were able to point to an object their master was looking at or...
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    William Hiram Brawley (incorrectly reported in some works as William Huggins Brawley; May 13, 1841 – November 15, 1916) was a United States representative...
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    revised in 1634. Temple Henry Croker's translation, misattributed to William Huggins' and Henry Boyd's translation were published in 1757 and 1784, respectively...
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    the Cat's Eye Nebula at 4959 and 5007 Ångström were discovered by William Huggins in 1864. Because no known element was showing these emission lines...
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    lines had already been identified in the spectrum of the Sun. In 1879, William Huggins used photographs of the spectra of Vega and similar stars to identify...
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    Miller James Huggins (March 27, 1878 – September 25, 1929) was an American professional baseball player and manager. Huggins played second base for the...
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  • to be observed. For this reason, when CELs were first observed by William Huggins in the spectrum of the Cat's Eye Nebula, he did not know what they...
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    Working at his private observatory in Tulse Hill, England, in 1864 William Huggins performed the first studies of the spectrum of Aldebaran, where he...
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  • novellas Huggins had written in the 1940s. These and other similar incidents led Huggins to leave the studio soon thereafter. The experiences led Huggins to...
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