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Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910
9 letters, Upper Tulse Hill and the Athenaeum, London to G. D. Liveing/William Huggins. 1904-1906.
Letters concern supply and cost of radium products, especially radium bromide; frequent references to correspondence with Pierre Curie; back of letter of 1904 May 16 has draft of letter from Liveing (to an unnamed correspondent) as chairman of the Radium Committee of the Royal Society.
Educated at City of London School. After a few years of business he decided to devote himself to astronomy. F. R. A. S. 1854. In 1856 he built an observatory at Tulse Hill and applied to stars the methods of Kirchhofs researches into the chemical constitution of the sun. In conjunction with William Allen Miller (F. R. S. 1845) he devised the star spectroscope and showed that in structure the stars resemble the sun. F. R. S. 1865. Royal Medal 1866. Rumford Medal 1880. Copley Medal 1898. President of British Association 1891. K. C. B. 1897. O. M. 1902. He was elected 37th President of the Royal Society 1900-1905.
Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906.
Royal Society (Great Britain). Radium Committee (1904).
Radium -- Metallurgy.
Radium bromide.
Liveing, George Downing, 1827-1924.
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