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3 unusual facts about Margaret Lindsay Huggins


William Huggins

(with Lady Huggins): An Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra from \lambda4870 to \lambda3300, 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.

He married Margaret Lindsay, daughter of John Murray of Dublin, who also had an interest in astronomy and scientific research.

Sir William Huggins, OM, KCB, FRS (7 February 1824 – 12 May 1910) was an English astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins.



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