William Huggins

Sir William Huggins, OM , FRS (February 7, 1824 – May 12, 1910) was a British astronomer. Image File history File links William Huggins - Project Gutenberg eText 14990 - http://www. ... Image File history File links William Huggins - Project Gutenberg eText 14990 - http://www. ... The Order of Merit is a British and Commonwealth Order bestowed by the Monarch. ... The Royal Society of London is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence and was founded in 1660. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ...

He built a private observatory and carried out extensive observations of the spectral emission lines and absorption lines of various celestial objects. He was the first to distinguish between nebulas and galaxies by showing that some (like the Orion Nebula) had pure emission spectra characteristic of gas, while others like the Andromeda Galaxy had spectra characteristic of stars. Observatory of Strasbourg An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial and/or celestial events. ... A spectral line is a dark or bright line in an otherwise uniform and continuous spectrum, resulting from an excess or deficiency of photons in a narrow frequency range, compared with the nearby frequencies. ... A spectral line is a dark or bright line in an otherwise uniform and continuous spectrum, resulting from an excess or deficiency of photons in a narrow frequency range, compared with the nearby frequencies. ... The Triangulum Emission Nebula NGC 604 lies in a spiral arm of Galaxy M33, 2. ... NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light years in diameter and approximately 60 million light years distant. ... The entire Orion Nebula in visible light Optical images reveal clouds of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula; an infrared image (right) reveals the new stars shining within. ... A gas is one of the phases of matter. ... This image is a Galaxy Evolution Explorer observation of the large galaxy in Andromeda, Messier 31. ... The Pleiades star cluster A star is a massive body of plasma in outer space which is currently or has in the past produced energy through nuclear fusion. ...

Honours

Awards

• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1867 with William Allen Miller, 1885)
• Copley Medal (1898)
• Henry Draper Medal (1901)
• Bruce Medal (1904)

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• Huggins crater on the Moon
• Crater on Mars
• Asteroid 2635 Huggins

Huggins is a lunar crater that lies in the rugged southern highlands of the Moons near side. ... Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0. ... This article is about impact craters, also known as meteor craters. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. ... An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ...

Publications

• Spectrum analysis in its application to the heavenly bodies. Manchester, 1870 (Science lectures for the people; series 2, no. 3)
• (with Lady Huggins): An atlas of representative stellar spectra from [lambda] 4870 to [lambda] 3300, together with a discussion of the evolution order of the stars, and the interpretation of their spectra; preceded by a short history of the observatory. London, 1899 (Publications of Sir William Huggins's Observatory; v. 1)
• The Royal Society, or, Science in the state and in the schools. London, 1906.
• The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins; edited by Sir William and Lady Huggins. London, 1909 (Publications of Sir William Huggins's Observatory; v. 2)

Margaret Lindsay Huggins (born in 1848 in Dublin; died in 1915) was a British astronomer. ...

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis OM PRS (April 5, 1827 – February 10, 1912) was a famous British surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. ... The President of the Royal Society (PRS) is the elected head of the Royal Society of London. ... See also Rayleigh fading Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh number Rayleigh waves Rayleigh-Jeans law External links Nobel website bio of Rayleigh About John William Strutt MacTutor biography of Lord Rayleigh Categories: People stubs | 1842 births | 1919 deaths | Nobel Prize in Physics winners | Peers | British physicists | Discoverer of a chemical element ...