Definition of Sir william huggins

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

Exact synonyms: Huggins
Generic synonyms: Astronomer, Stargazer, Uranologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir William Huggins

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Sir Thomas Wyat
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Tim Rice
Sir Tom Stoppard
Sir Walter Norman Haworth
Sir Walter Ralegh
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Scott
Sir William Alexander Craigie
Sir William Chambers
Sir William Crookes
Sir William Gerald Golding
Sir William Gilbert
Sir William Herschel
Sir William Huggins
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Sir William Turner Walton
Sir William Wallace
Sir William Walton
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Sir Yehudi Menuhin
Sirach
Siracusa
Siraiki
Siraj-ud-daula
Sirajganj District
Sirbonian
Siren's song
Siren song

Literary usage of Sir william huggins

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1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"Publications of sir william huggins' Observatory, vol. I. London : Wesley, 1899. 2. The Scientific Papers of sir william huggins, KCB, OM Edited by Sir ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The adoption, by sir william huggins in 1876, of gelatine or dry plates in celestial ... Again by sir william huggins, the spectrum of the Orion nebula was ..."

3. Astronomers of To-day and Their Work by Hector Macpherson (1905)
"Sir Wlliam AMONG the greatest of living astronomers, the name of Sir William Huggins holds a conspicuous place. We may look upon him as — independently of ..."

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