Mary Somerville (/ˈsʌmərvɪl/; née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied...
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Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's...
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Mary Somerville (1780–1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. Mary Somerville may also refer to: Mary R. Somerville, American librarian...
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southwest. This is one of a handful of lunar craters named after a woman, Mary Somerville. Daniel R. Altschuler; Fernando J. Ballesteros (4 July 2019). The Women...
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Saturday night soirées with their mutual friend, and Ada's private tutor, Mary Somerville. Between 1842 and 1843, Lovelace translated an article by the military...
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Lectureship, awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society, as well as the 2020 Mary Somerville Medal and Prize, awarded by the Institute of Physics. In 2022, she...
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on the predecessors to Albert Einstein, on Émilie du Châtelet and Mary Somerville, and on Thomas Harriot. In the 1970s, Arianrhod left her honours program...
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physician William Somerville (1771–1860) and his wife and cousin, the polymath Mary Somerville (1780–1872). Thomas Somerville, 1st Lord Somerville (c. 1370–1444)...
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Mary Somerville, OBE (1 November 1897 – 1 September 1963) was the first Director of Schools Broadcasting at the BBC (1925–1949). She pioneered their school...
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Mary Somerville was launched in 1834 at Liverpool. She spent her career as an East Indiaman, sailing primarily for Taylor, Potter & Co., of Liverpool...
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