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Mary Somerville
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Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
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Mary Somerville (1780–1872) was a British mathematician, writer, scientist, and physicist. Born Mary Fairfax in Jedburgh, she later used the married names Mary Greig and Mary Somerville. She worked in the fields of mathematics and popular science, writing in English. Her notable works include *On the connection of the physical sciences*, *Personal recollections*, and *Physische Geographie aus dem Englischen von D. Adolph Barth*.
Somerville was a member of several academic institutions, including the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Accademia Pontaniana, and the Royal Irish Academy. She was also a teacher to Ada Lovelace. She died in Naples, where she is buried in the English Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1780
- Died
- 1872
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Sulla connessione delle scienze fisiche
- Ueberblick der physikalischen Wissenschaften in ihrem Zusammenhange
- On the connection of the physical sciences
- De la connexion des sciences physiques ou exposé et rapide de tous les principaux phénomènes astronomiques, physiques, chimiques, géologiques et metéorologiques
- Personal recollections
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12
- Total plays
- 21
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,789x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,845x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,760x
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 15,180x
- Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,382x
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Key facts
- Born
- Mary Fairfax , ( 1780-12-26 ) 26 December 1780, Jedburgh , Scotland
- Died
- 29 November 1872 (1872-11-29) (aged 91), Naples , Kingdom of Italy
- Resting place
- English Cemetery, Naples
- Awards
- Patron's Medal (1869)
- Fields
- Science writing Mathematics
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mary Somerville (née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 1780–1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
In John Stuart Mill's 1866 mass petition to the UK Parliament to grant women the right to vote, the first signature on the petition was Somerville's, which she signed before the age of 86.
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