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Margaret Lindsay Huggins

Margaret Lindsay Huggins
Born
Margaret Lindsay Murray

(1848-08-14)14 August 1848
Dublin, Ireland
Died24 March 1915(1915-03-24) (aged 66)
London, England
Spouse
(m. 1875; died 1910)
Scientific career
Fields

Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins (14 August 1848, in Dublin – 24 March 1915, in London),[1] born Margaret Lindsay Murray, was an Irish-English scientific investigator and astronomer.[2][3][4][5][6][7] With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy and co-wrote the Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra (1899).

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  2. ^ "Dame Margaret Lindsay Huggins". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 76 (4). Royal Astronomical Society: 278–282. 1916. Bibcode:1916MNRAS..76R.278.. doi:10.1093/mnras/76.4.278a.
  3. ^ "Lady Huggins". The Observatory. 38 (488): 254–256. 1915. Bibcode:1915Obs....38..254.
  4. ^ Cannon, Annie Jump (1915). "Lady Huggins". The Observatory. 38 (490): 323–324. Bibcode:1915Obs....38..323C.
  5. ^ Whiting, Sarah Frances (1915). "Lady Huggins". The Astrophysical Journal. 42 (1): 1–3. Bibcode:1915ApJ....42....1W. doi:10.1086/142188.
  6. ^ Chant, Clarence Augustus (1915). "Death of Lady Huggins". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 9 (4): 149–150. Bibcode:1915JRASC...9..149C.
  7. ^ Becker, Barbara J. (2004). "Huggins (née Murray), Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/46443. Retrieved 4 November 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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