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 (hŭg′ĭnz), Charles Brenton 1901-1997.
Canadian-born American surgeon. He shared a 1966 Nobel Prize for research on the effects of hormones on prostate cancer and breast cancer.
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Huggins

(ˈhʌɡɪnz)
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(Biography) Sir William. 1824–1910, British astronomer. He pioneered the use of spectroscopy in astronomy and discovered the red shift in the lines of a stellar spectrum
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Noun1.Huggins - English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
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