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    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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    Ada Lovelace (category Burials at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Hucknall)
    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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    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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    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 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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