Mary Charlotte Somerville

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Mary_Charlotte_Somerville

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:advocatesFor	women's education
gptkbp:awarded	Royal Astronomical Society honorary member Royal Geographical Society honorary member Royal Irish Academy honorary member
gptkbp:birthDate	1780-12-26
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:Jedburgh,_Scotland
gptkbp:burialPlace	gptkb:English_Cemetery,_Naples
gptkbp:children	gptkb:Martha_Charters_Somerville gptkb:Woronzow_Greig
gptkbp:deathDate	1872-11-29
gptkbp:deathPlace	gptkb:Naples,_Italy
gptkbp:fieldOfWork	gptkb:astronomy gptkb:mathematics geography physics science communication
gptkbp:gender	female
gptkbp:honor	Somerville College, Oxford named after her Somerville crater on the Moon named after her Somerville Island named after her
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Mary Charlotte Somerville
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Ada_Lovelace
gptkbp:knownFor	gptkb:astronomy gptkb:mathematics popularizing science science writing
gptkbp:language	gptkb:French English
gptkbp:legacy	namesake of Somerville College, Oxford namesake of Somerville Island, Canada namesake of lunar crater Somerville pioneer for women in science
gptkbp:memberOf	gptkb:American_Philosophical_Society gptkb:Royal_Astronomical_Society gptkb:Royal_Geographical_Society gptkb:Royal_Irish_Academy
gptkbp:nationality	Scottish
gptkbp:notableWork	gptkb:On_the_Connexion_of_the_Physical_Sciences gptkb:Personal_Recollections,_from_Early_Life_to_Old_Age gptkb:Physical_Geography gptkb:Mechanism_of_the_Heavens
gptkbp:spouse	gptkb:Samuel_Greig gptkb:William_Somerville
gptkbp:translatedInto	gptkb:Laplace's_Mécanique_Céleste
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:William_Somerville
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5