Sir William Huggins

Definitions of Sir William Huggins
  1. noun
    English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
    synonyms: Huggins
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    astronomer, stargazer, uranologist
    a physicist who studies astronomy
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