Sir William Huggins - Honours, Publications

Astronomer, born in London, England, UK. He built an observatory near London (1855), where he invented the stellar spectroscope, which had a major influence on the study of the physical constitution of stars, planets, comets, and nebulae. He discovered that comets emit the light of luminescent carbon gas (1868), and determined the amount of heat that reaches the Earth from some of the stars. He was knighted in 1897.

Sir William Huggins, OM , FRS (February 7, 1824 – May 12, 1910) was a British astronomer.

Huggins was president of the Royal Society between 1900 and 1905.

Honours

Awards

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1867 with William Allen Miller, 1885) Copley Medal (1898) Henry Draper Medal (1901) Bruce Medal (1904)

Named after him

Huggins crater on the Moon Crater on Mars Asteroid 2635 Huggins

Publications

Spectrum analysis in its application to the heavenly bodies. London, 1899 (Publications of Sir William Huggins's Observatory; edited by Sir William and Lady Huggins. London, 1909 (Publications of Sir William Huggins's Observatory; 2)

Honorary Titles
Preceded by: The Lord Lister	President of the Royal Society 1900–1905	Succeeded by: The Lord Rayleigh