Royal Society

When she was first in London AW found plenty to occupy her, both activities undertaken for interest and those undertaken for earnings to support herself and her father. She became an assistant to Zachary Williams

Nineteenth-century literary historians—Charles Dibdin , John Doran , Jane Williams —tended, though from different viewpoints, to subordinate her writings to her supposed personal characteristics. More disappointingly, a feminist literary historian of the early...

During Elizabeth's mother's lifetime the Tollet family lived at York Buildings, near Whitehall Palace, London, where George Tollet also probably had his office. The buildings were a centre of intellectual life: a select group...

Her academic career took her almost around the world. First she went to Japan for two years, from 1907, to be attached to the University of Tokyo on a research grant from the Royal Society

While she was successfully pursuing her writing, he was building up the University of Edinburgh 's Earth Science department, tripling its size. Among his many accomplishments and honours, he was elected a Fellow of the...

The results of MS 's first experimental investigation of the connection between light and magnetism were presented to the Royal Society by William Somerville ; they later appeared in the Society's Philosophical Transactions.

After conducting a set of experiments on the effect of sunlight on vegetable juices, MS sent a report of her method and results to John Herschel , who presented her findings to the Royal Society .

The Royal Society of London commissioned Sir Francis Chantrey to sculpt MS 's bust for their Great Hall.

In London the Somervilles enjoyed participating in a rich scientific community: Mary's time there was much happier than during her first marriage. She attended many lectures at the Royal Institution , and took lessons in...

Herschel observed that nothing beyond the name in the title-page. . . remind[s] us of its coming from a female hand, and that his response to Somerville's text was one of unfeigned delight and...

RP has seen her commitment to poetry as including a commitment to encouraging and instructing readers of it. Invited by the Poetry Society to stand for election as its Chair, she was persuaded to do...

By 1754 she was back in London with her husband, who was apparently the James Nihell , surgeon-apothecary and Fellow of the Royal Society , from a distinguished medical family, who died on 1 June...

Isaac Newton was elected President of the Royal Society .

The telescope brought him fame and an invitation to join the Royal Society , though it also brought an acrimonious controversy with Robert Hooke .

One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and George Eliot . She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies...