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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 to the attention of the world the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for 65 million years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer has received more than 97,622 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer is the 442nd most popular biologist (up from 646th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from South Africa (up from 91st in 2019) and the 4th most popular South African Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 442 out of 841. Before her are William Jackson Hooker, Alfred Grandidier, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, and Sewall Wright. After her are Jean René Constant Quoy, Leopold Fitzinger, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, and Carl Friedrich von Ledebour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 174. Before her are Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, William Steig, Ramon Magsaysay, John G. Trump, and Janusz Kusociński. After her are Mariam Aslamazian, Ragnar Nurkse, Guido Masetti, Amedeo Nazzari, Edwige Feuillère, and Polina Osipenko. Among people deceased in 2004, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 139. Before her are Tiziano Terzani, Kalevi Sorsa, Carrie Snodgress, Naomi Shemer, Muhammad Zaidan, and Mitsuteru Yokoyama. After her are Xenophon Zolotas, Briek Schotte, Agnes Martin, Rick James, Jacques Georges, and Carlo Rustichelli.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 62 out of 374. Before her are Cyril Cusack (1910), Trevor Jones (1949), Piet Joubert (1834), J. B. M. Hertzog (1866), Koos de la Rey (1847), and David Cooper (1931). After her are Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), Reggie Walker (1889), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Navi Pillay (1941), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), and J. G. Strijdom (1893).

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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), Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), and Sydney Brenner (1927). After her are Louisa Bolus (1877) and Austin Stevens (1950).

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