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Women Scientists from Scotland. Subcategories. This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total. ...
scientist carbon dioxide discoverer: Robert Blair: 1748–1828 astronomer inventor of the aplanatic lens: John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr: 1880–1971 nutritionist: Nobel Peace Prize winner David Brewster: 1781–1868 scientist Royal Scottish Society of Arts founder Thomas Brisbane: 1773–1860 astronomer John Campbell Brown: 1947-2019 astronomer
Mary Somerville (/ ˈ s ʌ m ər v ɪ l / SUM-ər-vil; née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) [1] 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.
In early 1944 the Currans were part of a group of British scientists invited to go to the US to take part in the Manhattan Project – the Allied project to develop an atomic bomb. [16] They joined the British Mission at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in California, headed by Mark Oliphant , [ 17 ] a distinguished Australian scientist that ...
Some names such as Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace are widely known, many other women have been active inventors and innovators in a wide range of interests and applications, contributing important developments to the world in which we live. [2] [3] The following is a list of notable women innovators and inventors displayed by country.
Williamina Paton Stevens was born in Dundee, Scotland, at 86 Nethergate, [3] on 15 May 1857 to Mary Walker and Robert Stevens, a carver and gilder. She was one of six children. [4] Her younger sister, Johanna Stevens, would also later work at Harvard College Observatory. [5] Starting at the age of fourteen, she went to work as a pupil-teacher.
Science portal; Spain portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total. ... 21st-century Spanish women scientists (1 C, 23 P) A.
Scientists from Scotland ... Scottish women scientists (14 C) A. Scottish agronomists (30 P) Scottish anthropologists (1 C, 17 P) Scottish archaeologists (5 C, 64 P)