Margaret Lindsay Huggins

Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848 to 1915), born Margaret Murray in Dublin, was an Irish-English astronomer and scientific investigator who taught herself astronomy from popular books and built her own spectroscope. After her marriage to William Huggins in 1875 she worked with him as a pioneer of spectroscopy, helped bring photography into their research and co-wrote the Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra in 1897. In 1890 she and three other women were elected to the council of the new British Astronomical Association, and she later became an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society. She bequeathed part of her astronomy collection to Wellesley College.