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Mary Somerville

1780 - 1872

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Mary Somerville ( SUM-ər-vil; née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Somerville has received more than 1,001,714 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Mary Somerville is the 113th most popular astronomer (down from 102nd in 2019), the 992nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,010th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Astronomer.

Mary Somerville was a Scottish scientist who was the first woman to have her work published in the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions. She was best known for her translation of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Mary Somerville ranks 113 out of 644. Before her are Petrus Plancius, James Van Allen, Henry Norris Russell, Karl Ludwig Harding, William Huggins, and Édouard Stephan. After her are Edward Charles Pickering, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Walter Sydney Adams, Heinrich Schwabe, Frank Drake, and Ernst Öpik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Mary Somerville ranks 12. Before her are Jules de Polignac, Charles Nodier, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Ranjit Singh, Jernej Kopitar, and Sacagawea. After her are Karl Nesselrode, Bernardino Rivadavia, Georgios Karaiskakis, Tudor Vladimirescu, August Leopold Crelle, and Hinrich Lichtenstein. Among people deceased in 1872, Mary Somerville ranks 17. Before her are Stanisław Moniuszko, William John Macquorn Rankine, Ljudevit Gaj, Aleksis Kivi, Immanuel Nobel, and Zeng Guofan. After her are Kawakami Gensai, George Robert Gray, Prince Albert of Prussia, Princess Feodora of Leiningen, John Frederick Kensett, and Vladimir Dal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Somerville ranks 992 out of 8,785. Before her are Peter Benenson (1921), John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389), Marty Feldman (1934), Roger Daltrey (1944), John Dunstaple (1390), and Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (1517). After her are Mark Strong (1963), Damon Hill (1960), Naomi Campbell (1970), Richard Hamilton (1922), Ewan McGregor (1971), and Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham (1670).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Mary Somerville ranks 14. Before her are John Flamsteed (1646), James Bradley (1693), Stephen Gray (1666), George Darwin (1845), Adelard of Bath (1075), and William Huggins (1824). After her are William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), James Dunlop (1793), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), George Biddell Airy (1801), John Russell Hind (1823), and Edward Walter Maunder (1851).

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