Margaret Lindsay Huggins

Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins (born in 1848 in Dublin; died in 1915), born Margaret Lindsay Murray, was an Irish scientific investigator and amateur astronomer.^[1] With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy.

When Huggins was young, her mother died and her father remarried. Margaret's grandfather taught her the constellations, tuition which she supplemented with her own readings. When she married in 1875 to William Huggins, they began publishing joint papers. She was the first to discover that the nebulae inside the Orion Nebula is superheated oxygen and not a solid at all.

Huggins was a contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.

References

1. ^ Barbara J. Becker, Eclecticism, Opportunism, and the Evolution of a New Research Agenda: William and Margaret Huggins and the Origins of Astrophysics,CHAPTER 4—PART 1 - MARGARET HUGGINS: THE MYTH OF THE 'ABLE ASSISTANT'

External links

• Works written by or about Margaret, Lady Huggins at Wikisource
• Obituary - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1916, volume 76, pages 276–282.
• Bibliography from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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Name	Huggins, Margaret Lindsay
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