That marks the house she grew up in on 23 Longford Terrace, Monkstown Dublin
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Margaret Lindsay Huggins
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins was an Irish-English scientific investigator and astronomer. With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy and co-wrote the Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra (1897).
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science · Irish-English astronomer (1848–1915) · astronomer · physicist · scientist · photographer · writer · also Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, Margaret Lindsay Murray, mrs. Huggins, Huggins
Born 14 August 1848 · Died 24 March 1915 · Q243075
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1915· 1 entry
Died 1915-03-24.
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1903· 1 entry
Margaret and William Huggins published their final piece of joint scientific research on the spectra of certain radioactive substances
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1890· 1 entry
She, and three other women, were elected to the council of the new British Astronomical Association; she later became an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society
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1889· 1 entry
Discussing the "studies of the spectra of planets"
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1875· 1 entry
Margaret and her husband William began photographic experiments, which were meticulously documented in observatory notebooks
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1873· 1 entry
During a continued effort to educate herself, Margaret read a copy of the 19th century publication Good Words
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1848· 2 entries
Born 1848-08-14.
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Huggins was born on 14 August 1848, in Dublin, to a family of four.
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