BIOLOGIST

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer

1907 - 2004

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer has received more than 106,656 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer is the 456th most popular biologist (down from 441st in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 62nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular South African Biologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 456 out of 1,097. Before her are Georg August Goldfuss, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Francisco J. Ayala, Gabriel Bibron, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, and Eugene Odum. After her are Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Wilhelm Roux, Carl Meissner, June Almeida, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, and André Marie Constant Duméril.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 169. Before her are Rosalind Russell, Alfred Delp, Raymond Braine, Gunnar Ekelöf, Annabella, and Jean Carzou. After her are Géza von Radványi, Sergei Shtemenko, Béla Barényi, Nicanor Zabaleta, Petro Grigorenko, and Janusz Kusociński. Among people deceased in 2004, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 141. Before her are Tiziano Terzani, José Giovanni, Cem Karaca, Hubert Selby Jr., Juan Zambudio Velasco, and Piero Piccioni. After her are Kalevi Sorsa, Carmen Laforet, Christer Pettersson, Rogelio Domínguez, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, and Ivan Hlinka.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 58 out of 454. Before her are Piet Joubert (1834), Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941), Bruce Grobbelaar (1957), David Cooper (1931), Trevor Jones (1949), and Reggie Walker (1889). After her are Cyril Cusack (1910), Dave Matthews (1967), Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), Marlene Dumas (1953), and Laurence Oliphant (1829).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In South Africa

Among biologists born in South Africa, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 4. Before her are Max Theiler (1899), Sydney Brenner (1927), and Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761). After her are Louisa Bolus (1877), and Austin Stevens (1950).

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