Awards & Winners

Mary Somerville

Date of Birth 26-December-1780
Place of Birth Jedburgh
(United Kingdom, Scottish Borders)
Nationality Scotland
Profession Mathematician, Astronomer
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.

Awards by Mary Somerville

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1869


Patron's Gold Medal
(Who throughout her very long life has been eminently distinguished by her proficiency in those branches of science which form the basis of Physical Geography)