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[arethuza]

I went looking to see who the entry was for the nearest town to where I live expecting it to be Mary Somerville and was rather disappointed to find it was some chap I'd never heard of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerville

Worth noting:

"In 1834 she became the first person to be described in print as a 'scientist'"

[jefftk → arethuza]

That's what the term was coined for; the older term was "man of science"