Mary Somerville (/ˈsʌmərvɪl/ SUM-ər-vil; née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath...
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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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night soirées with their mutual friend, and Lovelace'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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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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Christmas Candle Bea Haddington 2014 Maleficent Flittle Mr. Turner Mary Somerville 2015 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism Miss Adderstone...
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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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Outsiders (2016–2017). Somerville was born in Iowa City, Iowa, to Lefa Mary (née Pash; 1918–2011) and the Rev. Paul Somerville (1919-1995), who moved...
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Institute of Physics Awards (redirect from Mary Somerville Medal and Prize)
"distinguished contributions to public engagement within physics." The Mary Somerville Medal and Prize The Isaac Newton Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded...
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Scottish Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean. The obverse of the £10 note shows Mary Somerville, with a quote from her work 'The Connection of the Physical Sciences'...
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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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but also well-educated, there was growing demand for science titles. Mary Somerville became an early and highly successful science writer of the nineteenth...
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scientist Mary Somerville and father of four. Somerville was descended from the ancient family of Somerville of Cambusnethan, a branch of the Somervilles of...
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Choice’ by Sorley MacLean. The obverse of the £10 note shows scientist Mary Somerville, with a quote from her work The Connection of the Physical Sciences...
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was the uncle and he also became the father-in-law to the scientist Mary Somerville who was known as "The Rose of Jedburgh". He was born on 9 March 1740...
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Julia Mary Fownes Somerville, OBE (born 14 July 1947) is an English television news reader and reporter who has worked for the BBC and ITN. Somerville was...
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it first appeared in print in Whewell's anonymous 1834 review of Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences published in the Quarterly...
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named an honorary Member of the Royal Astronomical Society (1835, with Mary Somerville). She was named an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy (1838)...
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ISBN 978-0-199-93041-8. OCLC 972369868. Patterson, Elizabeth C. (December 1969). "Mary Somerville". The British Journal for the History of Science. 4 (4): 311–339. doi:10...
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process a proper introduction in his 1842 paper to the same institution. Mary Somerville built on Herschel's research and documented it in a letter to him dated...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (category Books by Mary Somerville)
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, by Mary Somerville, is one of the best-selling science books of the 19th century. The book went through many...
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Astronomical Society (the others were Queen Victoria and Mary Somerville, a scientist for whom Somerville College at Oxford University was named). On 6 December...
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suffragist. She was also Waterford's first woman Councillor. She was born Mary Somerville Parker Strangman on 16 March 1872, the second last of seven children...
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Somerville College Library is the college library of Somerville College, one of the 38 colleges of the University of Oxford. The library is one of the...
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polymer note, first issued in 2017, bears a portrait of scientist Mary Somerville on the front and a pair of otters on the reverse. The Royal Bank of...
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stone. It is destroyed in the course of subsequent experiments. 1826 – Mary Somerville, a Scottish science writer and polymath conducted a series of experiments...
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Mary R. Somerville is an American librarian who served as president of the American Library Association from 1996 to 1997; she is best known for her advocacy...
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lacking a readable translation of Mécanique Céleste. He thus approached Mary Somerville, who began to prepare a translation which would "explain to the unlearned...
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