Margaret Lindsay Huggins

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Margaret Lindsay Huggins (born in 1848 in Dublin; died in 1915), born Margaret Lindsay Murray, was a British astronomer. With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy.

When Huggins was young, her mother died and her father remarried. Margaret's grandfather taught her the constellations, tuition which she supplemented with her own readings. When she married in 1875 to William Huggins, they began publishing joint papers. She was the first to discover that the nebulae inside the Orion Nebula is superheated oxygen and not a solid at all.

Huggins was a contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.

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• Biography from the BBC.
• Obituary - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1916, volume 76, pages 276–282.