Beginning in 1864, William Huggins examined the spectra of about 70 nebulae.

In 1868, British astronomer William Huggins was the first to determine the velocity of a star moving away from the Earth by this method.

In 1879, William Huggins used photographs of the spectra of Vega and similar stars to identify a set of twelve " very strong lines " that were common to this stellar category.

* May 12 – Sir William Huggins, British astronomer ( b. 1824 )

* February 7 – William Huggins, British astronomer ( d. 1910 )

* 1864 — William Huggins studies the spectrum of the Orion Nebula and shows that it is a cloud of gas

In 1864, English amateur astronomer William Huggins examined the spectra of multiple nebulae, discovering that some of these objects, including M57, displayed the spectra of bright emission lines characteristic of fluorescing glowing gases.

* The astronomers Sir William Huggins and his wife Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, had a home and observatory known as Huggins ' Observatory from about 1850 until 1915 at 90 Upper Tulse Hill.

In 1863 the English chemist William Allen Miller and English amateur astronomer Sir William Huggins used the wet collodion plate process to obtain the first ever photographic spectrogram of a star, Sirius and Capella.

It was first used by Sir William Huggins and his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins, in 1876, in their work to record the spectra of astronomical objects.

William Huggins ' and Henry Boyd's translations were published in 1757 and 1784, respectively.

In 1865 English amateur astronomer William Huggins used his visual spectroscopy method to examine the nebula showing it, like other nebula he had examined, was made up of " luminous gas ".

Confirmation of this hypothesis had to wait another hundred years, when William Huggins ( assisted by his wife Mary Huggins ) turned his spectroscope on various nebulae.

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Four of the National Portrait Gallery paintings are currently ( December 1997 ) on display: John Burns, Sir William Huggins, Thomas Huxley ( the artist's father in law ) and Charles Darwin ( copies of the last two are also prominently displayed at the top of the staircase at the Athenaeum Club in London ).

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The exception was an Iron Mountain settler named William Lewis.

William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.

Miriam was stopped at the Taliesin gate, and William Weston, now the estate foreman, came out to parley.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

He wrote eloquently to William James that impartial history was not only impossible but undesirable.

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

In the earlier sessions there was plentiful discussion on the natural law, which Dr. William V. O'Brien of Georgetown University, advanced as the basis for widely acceptable ethical judgments on foreign policy.

William, he was called, in honor of the man who was at once Shelley's pensioner and his most bitter detractor.

After the Juniors were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the Junior Class, Mrs. William H. Long, Jr. was introduced as the first speaker.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.

William Hitchcock, who retired in 1938, was a veteran of thirty-four years' local service.

After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.

Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

William was adamant on one point: under no circumstances would he allow the Negroes to remain on the plantation with his and Henry's slaves if they were told of their coming freedom.

One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.

Appointment of William S. Pfaff Jr., 41, as promotion manager of The Times-Picayune Publishing Company was announced Saturday by John F. Tims, president of the company.