What is William Huggins?
[[Image:Huggins William 1910.jpg|thumb|William Huggins (1910)]] Sir '''William Huggins''', [[Order of the Bath|KCB]], [[Order of Merit|OM]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], (7 February 1824–12 May 1910) was an [[England|English]] [[astronomer]] best known for his work in [[astronomical spectroscopy]]. == Life and work == William Huggins was born at [[Cornhill, London|Cornhill]], [[Middlesex]] in 1824. He married [[Margaret Lindsay Huggins|Margaret Lindsay]], who was also an astronomer. Huggins built his own [[observatory]] from where he and his wife looked at [[spectroscopy|spectral]] [[emission line]]s and [[absorption line]]s of [[astronomical]] objects. He was the first person to figure out the difference between [[nebula]]e and [[galaxy|galaxies]]. Huggins was [[president]] of the [[Royal Society]] between [[1900]] and [[1905]]. {{bio-stub}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Huggins, William}} [[Category:1824 births]] [[Category:1910 deaths]] [[Category:English astronomers]] [[Category:Order of Merit]] [[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath]] [[Category:Presidents of the Royal Society]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]]