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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

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer is the 513th most popular biologist (down from 456th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from South Africa (down from 58th in 2019) and the 4th most popular South African Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 513 out of 1,097. Before her are Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Christian von Steven, Robert H. MacArthur, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, and Johann Jakob Heckel. After her are Aaron Aaronsohn, Alec Jeffreys, Louisa Bolus, François Marie Daudin, Johan Andreas Murray, and Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 171. Before her are Alfred Delp, L. Sprague de Camp, Janusz Kusociński, Annabella, Rosalind Russell, and Raymond Braine. After her are Roman Rudenko, Mariam Aslamazian, Ursula Kuczynski, Phil Edwards, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança. Among people deceased in 2004, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 133. Before her are Tom Wesselmann, Lucia Berlin, Big Boss Man, Briek Schotte, Helmut Griem, and Piero Piccioni. After her are Werner Goldberg, Naomi Shemer, James Quinn, Joe Viterelli, Maxime Rodinson, and Ota Šik.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer ranks 71 out of 454. Before her are Goodwill Zwelithini (1948), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941), Dave Matthews (1967), Zindzi Mandela (1960), and Christiaan de Wet (1854). After her are Louisa Bolus (1877), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Cyril Cusack (1910), Ronald Harwood (1934), Oliver Tambo (1917), and Piet Joubert (1834).

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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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