Mary Somerville
Mathematician, Academic
1780 – 1872
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Who was Mary Somerville?
Mary Fairfax Somerville was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and was nominated to be jointly the first female member of the Royal Astronomical Society at the same time as Caroline Herschel.
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- Born
- Dec 26, 1780
Jedburgh - Spouses
- Ethnicity
- Scottish people
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 28, 1872
Naples
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on July 23, 2013
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