1. English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910); [syn: Huggins, Sir William Huggins]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Sir William Huggins
n 1: English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in
astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
[syn: Huggins, Sir William Huggins]