Royal Society

George was grandson of James Logan , a wealthy Philadelphian fur trader, scientist and bibliophile. In England on a visit at the time of an eclipse of the sun on 22 May 1724, James wrote...

Her father, Henry Reginald , was a schoolmaster in the parish of St Mary Axe, London, an author, and a friend of the poet Michael Drayton . He was reasonably prosperous, intellectually active, and...

Captain Frederick Marryat , FM 's father, was a distinguished naval officer renowned for conspicuous gallantry, a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Légion d'Honneur , a spectacular success as a novelist...

She had lost her brother to smallpox, and narrowly escaped herself. She probably went to Turkey primed with accounts which had reached the Royal Society in London of the Turkish practice of inoculation, and determined...

Her son, Richard Waller , was an artist, poet, and natural philosopher or scientist. He served as Secretary to the Royal Society from 1687 to 1709, and edited posthumous works by Robert Hooke .

MM ' daughter, Elizabeth , was seventeen when she was married, on 17 April 1680, to Alexander Pitfield , a close friend and associate of her brother. Pitfield was treasurer to the Royal Society from...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...