Venetia Burney
Venetia Phair, née Burney (11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the (then) planet (now classified as a dwarf planet) discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old and lived in Oxford, England.
Famous quotes containing the word burney:
“Another gentleman ... desired to know if I was engaged, or would honour him with my hand [to dance]. So he was pleased to say, though I am sure I know not what honour he could receive from me; but these sort of expressions, I find, are used as words of course, without any distinction of persons, or study of propriety.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)