biography
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Huggins, Sir William
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| male
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| lived:
| (1824–1910)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in London, UK. He built an observatory near London (1855), where he invented the stellar spectroscope, which had a major influence on the study of the physical constitution of stars, planets, comets, and nebulae. He discovered that comets emit the light of luminescent carbon gas (1868), and determined the amount of heat that reaches the Earth from some of the stars. He was knighted in 1897. |
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