William Huggins, British astronomer and spectroscopist, 1903. Artist: Spy

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William Huggins, British astronomer and spectroscopist, 1903. Huggins (1824-1910) was the inventor of the solar spectroscope and the first to distinguish nebulae from galaxies based on differences in their spectra. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, April 1903.

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