Google Doodle celebrates Scots scientist Mary Somerville
Scots scientist Mary Somerville is being celebrated with a Google Doodle on its UK homepage.The illustration of the Jedburgh-born mathematician and astronomer will appear on the page for 24 hours.
Google said her books were some of the most popular scientific publications of her time"opening the door for generations of female scientists".The company said it wanted to recognise her"immense contribution to science and her determination to succeed against all the odds".Getty Images Mary Fairfax Somerville was a mathematician, geographer and astronomer, who was born in 1780 in Jedburgh but her childhood home was at Burntisland in Fife.
Her parents tried to stop her studying because they thought it would kill her. Her sister had died and they thought studying was to blame.She was so accurate that she noticed a wobble in the orbit of Uranus and suggested there could be another planet out there.
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