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
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(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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