Mary Somerville
✶December 26, 1780
†November 28, 1872
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✶December 26, 1780
†November 28, 1872
2 candles from 2 countries
Would you like to keep memories of someone else?
Mary Somerville 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.
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
Biography from the article Mary Somerville on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.