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Sir William Huggins OM KCB FRS Margaret .[1]
Biography [ edit ]
William Huggins (1910)
William Huggins was born at Cornhill , Middlesex , in 1824. In 1875, he married Margaret Lindsay , daughter of John Murray of Dublin , who also had an interest in astronomy and scientific research.[2]
She encouraged her husband's photography and helped to put their research on a systematic footing.[citation needed
Huggins built a private observatory at 90 Upper Tulse Hill , London, from where he and his wife carried out extensive observations of the spectral emission lines and absorption lines of various celestial objects.[citation needed
On 29 August 1864, Huggins was the first to take the spectrum of a planetary nebula when he analysed NGC 6543 .[3] [4]
He was also the first to distinguish between nebulae and galaxies by showing that some (like the Orion Nebula ) had pure emission spectra characteristic of gas, while others like the Andromeda Galaxy had the spectral characteristics of stars .[citation needed
Huggins was assisted in the analysis of spectra by his neighbor, the chemist William Allen Miller . Huggins was also the first to adopt dry plate photography in imaging astronomical objects.[2]
With observations of Sirius showing a redshift in 1868, Huggins hypothesized that a radial velocity of the star could be computed.[5]
Huggins won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1867, jointly with William Allen Miller . He later served as President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1876 to 1878, and received the Gold Medal again (this time alone) in 1885. He served as an officer of the Royal Astronomical Society for a total of 37 years, more than any other person.[6]
Huggins was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1865, was awarded their Royal Medal (1866), Rumford Medal (1880) and Copley Medal (1898) and delivered their Bakerian Lecture in 1885.
He then served as President of the Royal Society from 1900 to 1905. For example, his Presidential Address in 1904 praised the fallen Fellows and distributed the prizes of that year.[7]
He died at his home in Tulse Hill, London, after an operation for a hernia in 1910 and was buried at Golders Green Crematorium .
Telescopes [ edit ]
In 1856 Huggins acquired a 5-inch diameter aperture telescope by Dollond.[8] [9] [9] [8] refracting telescopes .[9] objectives .
In 1871 Huggins acquired an 18-inch (0.46 m ) speculum reflecting telescope from the Grubb Telescope Company .[10] [9]
Honours and awards [ edit ]
Honours
Awards
Named after him
Publications [ edit ]
Caricature of Huggins by Leslie Ward in Vanity Fair
1870: Spectrum analysis in its application to the heavenly bodies . Manchester, (Science lectures for the work
people; series 2, no. 3)
1872: (editor) Spectrum analysis in its application to terrestrial substances and the physical constitution of heavenly bodies by H. Schellen, translated by Jane and Caroline Lassell, link from HathiTrust .
1899: (with Lady Huggins ): An Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra from
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1906: The Royal Society, or, Science in the state and in the schools . London.
1909: The Scientific Papers of Sir William Huggins ; edited by Sir William and Lady Huggins. London, (Publications of Sir William Huggins's Observatory; v. 2)
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References [ edit ]
^ Huggins, William; Miller, W.A. (1864). "On the spectra of some of the nebulae" . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London . 154 : 437–444. Bibcode :1864RSPT..154..437H . doi :10.1098/rstl.1864.0013
^ Kwok, Sun (2000), "Chapter1: History and overview", The origin and evolution of planetary nebulae Cambridge University Press , pp. 1–7, ISBN 0-521-62313-8
^ Huggins, W. (1868). "Further observations on the spectra of some of the stars and nebulae, with an attempt to determine therefrom whether these bodies are moving towards or from the Earth, also observations on the spectra of the Sun and of Comet II". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 158 : 529–564. Bibcode :1868RSPT..158..529H . doi :10.1098/rstl.1868.0022 .
^ Dreyer, John L. E.; Turner, Herbert H. (1923). History of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1820–1920 . Vol. 1. London: Royal Astronomical Society . p. 250.
^ Wm Huggins (30 November 1904) Huggins Presidential Address , link from Internet Archive
^ a b Sciences (U.S.), National Academy of (1902). Report of the National Academy of Sciences for the Year ...
^ a b c d Hale, George E. (1913). "1913ApJ....37..145H Page 145" . The Astrophysical Journal . 37 Bibcode :1913ApJ....37..145H . doi :10.1086/141983
^ Nall, Joshua. "18-inch telescope primary mirror, speculum, from William Huggins' Tulse Hill Observatory, by Howard Grubb, Irish, 1871" . Whipple Museum . Retrieved 27 March 2023 .
^ "William Huggins | American Academy of Arts and Sciences" . www.amacad.org . 9 February 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2024 .
^ "APS Member History" . search.amphilsoc.org . Retrieved 14 March 2024 .
^ Addison, Henry Robert; Lawson, William John; Oakes, Charles Henry; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1907). "HUGGINS, Sir Wm. , K.C.B. cr. 1897" . Who's Who . 59
^ "The Coronation Honours". The Times . No. 36804. London. 26 June 1902. p. 5.
^ "Court Circular". The Times . No. 36842. London. 9 August 1902. p. 6.
^ "No. 27470" . The London Gazette
^ "William Huggins" . www.nasonline.org . Retrieved 14 March 2024 .
^ "The Valz Prize" . Popular Astronomy . 21
^ "Henry Draper Medal" . National Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 19 February 2011 .
External links [ edit ]
Huggins, Sir William (1824–1910) Barbara J. Becker, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 2004 (subscription required)
Clerke, Agnes Mary (1911). "Huggins, Sir William" Encyclopædia Britannica
Audio description of Huggins' work
Eclecticism, Opportunism, and the Evolution of a New Research Agenda: William and Margaret Huggins and the Origins of Astrophysics Barbara J. Becker
William Wallace Campbell Sir William Huggins, K.C.B.,O.M. , Astronomical Society of the Pacific link from Internet Archive .
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