Royal Bank of Scotland Belfast

The announcement employs a week-long general public vote to decide on between three historical Scottish figures – Mary Somerville, James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Telford – evaluated to possess made considerable contributions to your industry of science and innovation. Voting sealed on Sunday at midnight.

Following issues over a big increase of last-minute ballots for Thomas Telford from outside of the UK, RBS decided to select Mary Somerville given that champion. Somerville have been the clear leader for the process aided by the great majority of the woman ballots coming from the British.

Commenting regarding the statement, Malcolm Buchanan, Chair of RBS’s Scotland board, said:

“I became overwhelmed by the response to this effort – a first for Royal Bank of Scotland - and wish to thank all those which took the full time to vote. Having the possibility to pick the face of your brand new £10 records clearly implied a great deal to a lot of men and women.

“Any of your last nominees would have been worthwhile champions and we wished to ensure our option correctly reflected the desires of the who took part. Mary Somerville’s enormous contribution to science along with her dedication to ensure success against all the chances plainly resonate as much these days because they did during the woman lifetime.”

Mary Somerville, Scientist, Science writer and translator (1780 – 1872)

At the same time when women’s participation in research ended up being highly frustrated, Mary Somerville had been a genuine pioneer and had been jointly selected is initial female person in the Royal Astronomical Society in 1835. Somerville’s writing affected James Clerk Maxwell and John Couch Adams together discussion of a hypothetical world perturbing Uranus leading Adams to find and find out Neptune.