SIR WILLIAM HUGGINS

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Meaning:

English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)

Synonyms:

Huggins; Sir William Huggins

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

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