noun
English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
• Syn: ↑Sir William Huggins
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑astronomer, ↑uranologist, ↑stargazer
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/hug"inz/, n.
Charles Brenton /bren"tn/, 1901-97, U.S. surgeon and medical researcher, born in Canada: Nobel prize 1966.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.