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Noun: Sir William Huggins
  1. English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
    - Huggins

Type of: astronomer, stargazer, uranologist

Encyclopedia: Sir William Huggins, OM, FRS

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