Mission Ocean

Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1879 as one of the first women’s colleges, it is named after Mary Somerville (1780-1872), the best-known female scientist of her day. Somerville became a mixed college in 1994. Its undergraduates, postgraduates and fellows study and research a wide range of subjects spanning the arts, sciences, medicine, engineering and the humanities. Alumni include former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi, and Dorothy Hodgkin, the only British woman scientist to have won a Nobel Prize.