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.
Margaret, who spent much time with her grandfather since her mother died when she was young, had been learning about constellations and the stars in general since she was very young. When she married in 1875 to William Huggins, she began to publish joint papers with him. She was also the first one to discover that the nebulae inside the Orion Nebula is superheated oxygen and not a solid at all.
She was a contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.
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