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Leakey, Mary Douglas (1913-1996)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : Russian Federation Subject : biography, biology, earth science English anthropologist and archaeologist. Born Mary Douglas Nicol in London on 6 February 1913, Leakey was the only child of a landscape painter from whom she inherited a talent for drawing that was of considerable importance to her later career. Much travelling during her childhood disrupted her formal education but a visit to prehistoric caves in southwest France, where her father went to paint, kindled an interest in archaeology. A chance meeting with the archaeologist Dorothy Liddell in the late 1920s convinced her that a career in the subject was possible and she became Liddell's assistant, chiefly as the illustrator at a major dig at a Neolithic site in Devon. She met the anthropologist Louis Leakey at a dinner party and he invited her to illustrate a book he was then working on. She agreed, and the two began to work closely together. Mary Nicol travelled to join him in Kenya at the Olduvai Gorge, and after…
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From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
English archaeologist. She was born in London and educated privately. In 1936 she married the anthropologist and archaeologist Louis Leakey; they had three sons. While working with Leakey in Tanganyika [now Tanzania] in 1959, it was Mary who noticed the skull in Olduvai Gorge which became known as…
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Full text Article Leakey, Mary Douglas (1913-1996)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : Russian Federation Subject : biography, biology, earth science English anthropologist and archaeologist. Born Mary Douglas Nicol in London on 6 February 1913, Leakey was the only child of a landscape painter from whom she inherited a talent for drawing that was of considerable importance to…
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From Encyclopedia of Evolution
(b. 1913-d. 1996) British anthropologist Mary Douglas Leakey was the wife of anthropologist Louis S.B. Leakey and made numerous important contributions to an understanding of human evolution. Mary Douglas Nicols, born February 6, 1913, traveled through Europe as a child. Her visits to prehistoric…
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From A to Z of Women: Women in Science and Math
(b. 1913–d. 1996) British anthropologist Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey made many of the discoveries of bones of human ancestors for which her better-known husband, Louis S. B. Leakey, became famous. After his death she was celebrated in her own right for such finds as the earliest known fossil…
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Mary Leakey
Mary Douglas Leakey was an English-born archaeologist and paleoanthropologist who made several fossil finds of great importance in the understanding of human evolution. Her early finds were interpreted and publicized by her husband, the noted anthropologist Louis S.B. Leakey. As a girl, Mary…
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Persian astronomer and mathematician. Determined several astronomical parameters and calculated tables of tangents and cotangents, advancing the study of trigonometry. Greek philosopher and scientist. A student of Plato, he taught and wrote about logic, metaphysics, natural science, rhetoric, …
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Family of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists known for their discoveries of hominin and other fossil remains in eastern Africa. Louis S.B. Leakey (b. 1903—d. 1972), born of British missionary parents, grew up in Kenya, was educated at Cambridge University, and eventually (1931) began field…
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From The American Heritage Student Science Dictionary
Family of British and Kenyan scientists. Louis (1903–1972) is known for fossil discoveries of early humans made in close collaboration with his wife, Mary (1913–1996). In 1959, while working in Tanzania, Africa, Mary Leakey uncovered skull and teeth fragments of a hominin species now thought to be…
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Full text Article Mary Douglas Leakey (1913–1996)

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
Louis Leakey photographed in the 1960s Getty...
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