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Mary Somerville

1780 - 1872

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Mary Somerville (; 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 942,298 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Somerville is the 102nd most popular astronomer (down from 29th in 2019), the 1,011th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 365th in 2019) and the 13th 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 102 out of 531. Before her are Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, William Huggins, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Karl Ludwig Hencke, J. Allen Hynek, and James Van Allen. After her are Reinhard Genzel, Frank Drake, Edward Charles Pickering, George Biddell Airy, Ernst Öpik, and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.

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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, Sacagawea, Jernej Kopitar, and Ranjit Singh. After her are Karl Nesselrode, Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, Charles Maturin, Tudor Vladimirescu, Clarke Abel, and Bernardino Rivadavia. Among people deceased in 1872, Mary Somerville ranks 18. Before her are William Webb Ellis, William John Macquorn Rankine, Stanisław Moniuszko, Prince Albert of Prussia, Zeng Guofan, and Ljudevit Gaj. After her are Aleksis Kivi, Immanuel Nobel, Vladimir Dal, William H. Seward, Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and John Bowring.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Somerville ranks 1,011 out of 7,765. Before her are Thomas Cavendish (1560), Ida Noddack (1896), Freeman Dyson (1923), Hans Sloane (1660), Robert Hardy (1925), and Cozy Powell (1947). After her are Paddy Roy Bates (1921), Van Morrison (1945), Princess Marie of Orléans (1865), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), Winifred Wagner (1897), and Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Mary Somerville ranks 13. Before her are Martin Ryle (1918), George Darwin (1845), William Lassell (1799), Stephen Gray (1666), Antony Hewish (1924), and William Huggins (1824). After her are George Biddell Airy (1801), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), Jeremiah Horrocks (1618), Adelard of Bath (1075), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), and John Russell Hind (1823).

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