Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

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Science and technology

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Resistance

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What Wikipedia says

Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer (24 February 1907 – 17 May 2004) was a South African museum official, who in 1938, brought the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for 65 million years, to the attention of the world.

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