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Mary Somerville: The Woman For Whom The Word \u201cScientist\u201d Was Made <\/strong>#WomenInSTEM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When we think of history\u2019s great scientists, names such as Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, or Nicolaus Copernicus likely come to mind. The funny thing is that the term \u201cscientist\u201d wasn\u2019t coined until 1834 \u2014 well after these men had died \u2014 and it was a woman named Mary Somerville who brought it into being in the first place.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mary Somerville was an almost entirely self-taught polymath whose areas of study included math, astronomy, and geology \u2013 just to name a few. That Somerville had such a constellation of interests, and possessed two X chromosomes, would signal a need to create a new term for someone like her \u2014 and scientific historian William Whewell would do precisely that upon reading her treatise, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, in 1834.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After reading the 53-year-old Somerville\u2019s work, he wanted to pen a glowing review of it. He encountered a problem, however: The term du jour for such an author would have been \u201cman of science,\u201d and that just didn\u2019t fit Somerville.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a pinch, the well-known wordsmith coined the term \u201cscientist\u201d for Somerville. Whewell did not intend for this to be a gender-neutral term for \u201cman of science;\u201d rather, he made it in order to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of Somerville\u2019s expertise. She was not just a mathematician, astronomer, or physicist; she possessed the intellectual acumen to weave these concepts together seamlessly.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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