Huggins, Sir William (1824-1910)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3726. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Astronomer, born in Stoke Newington, London, a wealthy amateur who built an observatory where he invented the stellar spectroscope. Building on KIRCHHOFF's and Bunsen's discoveries about terrestrial and solar spectral emission and absorption lines, and their conclusions that spectroscopy could reveal the composition of the source of the light, Huggins compared laboratory spectra with those of s...

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