Huggins, William ♂

Education

LL.D. 20.11.1893. (Recommended by Lord Bute).

Birth/childhood

Born 7.2.1824 2nd child and only son of William Thomas Huggins, silk mercer, London and Lucy Miller.

Educated privately.

Career

Built private laboratory and worked on spectroscope astronomy. K.C.B. [Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath] 1897. O.M. [Order of the Merit] 1902. [Astronomer]

Publications

The Scientific papers of Sir William Huggins, edited by Sir William Huggins and Lady Huggins. (London: W. Wesley & Son, 1909)

Death

Died 10.5.1910.

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